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    Dean Mafako
    “One of the greatest realizations that I clumsily stumbled upon during this process, was that these people didn’t need someone like me to tell them what to do; they needed someone like me to show them what can be done, together.”
    DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out

  • #2
    “Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the
    sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about today. Today is the
    best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.”
    Hendri Coetzee, Living the Best Day Ever

  • #3
    Claudia   Clark
    “Let me make two remarks. First I concentrate on the task ahead for 2016. I’m quite busy with that—thank you very much. And I’m looking with great interest in the American election campaign.’ For the second time during their press conference, the clicking sounds of the cameras was deafening.”
    Claudia Clark, Dear Barack: The Extraordinary Partnership of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel

  • #4
    Michael G. Kramer
    “US General Mathew Ridgeway was speaking about “Operation Vulture”. He said, “When the day comes for me to meet my maker and account for my actions, the thing that I would be most proud of is the fact that I fought against and perhaps totally prevented the carrying out of one of the most hare-brained tactical schemes that would have cost the lives of thousands upon thousands of men!”

    (A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume Two)”
    Michael G. Kramer

  • #5
    M.R. Noble
    “One’s child is the great treasure one will ever admire, but never own. You are the part of me that transcends time and carries my love with it.”
    M.R. Noble, Dark Eyes: White Lies

  • #6
    Frank Miller
    “This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again ... ”
    Frank Miller, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns

  • #7
    Jim Fergus
    “Good-bye, Harry, wherever you may be … never has it been more clear to me that the part of my life which you occupied is over forever … I could not be further away from you if I were on the moon … how odd to think of one’s life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.”
    Jim Fergus, One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

  • #8
    William Golding
    “Allow me to tell you, Mr Taylor," said I, but quietly as the occasion demanded, "that one gentleman does not rejoice at the misfortune of another in public".”
    William Golding

  • #9
    Maurice Sendak
    “Messages are the death of an honest literary transaction with children”
    Maurice Sendak in William Zinsser's book of essays



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