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last updated: November 28, 2023

She'll soon forget." "Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!
-- Hilary McKay

Source : Hilary McKay (2002). “Saffy's Angel”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.
-- Norman Douglas

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never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.
-- Edna O'Brien

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“Down with the U.S. empire! It must be said, in the entire world: Down with the empire!”
“The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.”
“In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.”
“There is one basis of science," says Descartes , "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived is true." A profound psychological mistake. It is true only of formal logic, wherein the mind never quits the sphere of its first assumptions to pass out into the sphere of real existences; no sooner does the mind pass from the internal order to the external order, than the necessity of verifying the strict correspondence between the two becomes absolute. The Ideal Test must be supplemented by the Real Test, to suit the new conditions of the problem.”
“I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.”
“A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse.”
“How unthinkable that, in a country of such bursting plenty, so many people are facing ongoing hunger and poverty. If we are truly each other's keepers, let's support school lunches, food stamps, neighborhood garden projects, and so many other wonderful programs working to put an end to this cruel and needless blight once and for all.”
“Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.”
“We call upon people everywhere to work for peace, to forget the quiet comfort of their homes, to leave behind their fears and feeling of powerlessness, their privileges and possessions, and join us as active participants and co-workers for peace.”

Source : Petra Karin Kelly (1984). “Fighting for Hope”, p.74, South End Press
“I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.