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I have loved works of fiction precisely for their illusions, for the author's sleight-of-hand in showing me the magic, what appeared in the right hand but not in the left...

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And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan. David Bowie
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I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family. Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Geronimo quote: "While living I want to live well."
While living I want to live well. Geronimo
Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn seriously. Tom Robbins
Ethel Merman quote: "At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first."
At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first. Ethel Merman
Disappointment over nationalistic authoritarian regimes may have contributed to the fact that today religion offers a new and subjectively more convincing language for old political orientations. Jurgen Habermas
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. Edward Hopper
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art--Not in lone splendour hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite. John Keats
A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable. Ryszard Kapuscinski
Burt Bacharach quote: "If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as..."
If Bush said just once: 'Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,' or showed some humanity. Burt Bacharach
Emma Bunton quote: "I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk."..."
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. Emma Bunton
This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer. Charisma Carpenter
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "Anything worth doing is worth doing badly."
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Gilbert K. Chesterton
Jose Carreras quote: "Italians have no sense of the dramatic."
Italians have no sense of the dramatic. Jose Carreras
Eli Khamarov quote: "The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no..."
The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations. Eli Khamarov