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Guillermo Cabrera Infante quote: "I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think..."

I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.

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The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence it. It weeps monotonously as water weeps as the wind weeps over snowfields. Impossible to silence it. It weeps for distant things. Hot southern sands yearning for white camellias. Weeps arrow without target evening without morning and the first dead bird on the branch. Oh, guitar! Heart mortally wounded by five swords. Federico Garcia Lorca
How do you walk into someone's life again after twenty-eight years? How do you pick up, when you were too young to know where you left off. Jodi Picoult
Anthony J. D'Angelo quote: "Promise a lot and give even more."
Promise a lot and give even more. Anthony J. D'Angelo
My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way. Anne Lamott
Commissioner Harris at the far end stared along the mad pathway. This was his first child and it had already become a murderer. Michael Ondaatje
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute. Frederick Reines
Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world--they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them. They would all three have made alternatively good courtesans or good wives not by the accident of birth but through the greater accident of finding their man or not finding him. F. Scott Fitzgerald
Jean Giraudoux quote: "A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to..."
A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. Jean Giraudoux
When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life. Jack Henry Abbott
It is impossible to get anything made or accomplished without stepping on some toes; enemies are inevitable when one is a doer. Norma Shearer
You can never control who you fall in love with, even when you're in the most sad, confused time of your life. You don't fall in love with people because they're fun. It just happens. Kirsten Dunst
I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds. Barbara Jordan
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything Albert Einstein
Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues. Sandra Day O'Connor
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What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America. Thomas Vilsack