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Abigail

by Magda Szabó

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The Answer Is No

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Dinner with Lenny: The Last Long Interview with Leonard Bernstein by Jonathan Cott

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“Life without music is unthinkable. Music without life is academic. That is why my contact with music is a total embrace”—echoing the cry in Schiller’s “Ode to Joy,” Seid umschlugen, Millionen! (“You millions, I embrace you!”).

Noel’s Quotes

“When a man is certain that he knows God’s will, and is resolved to do it regardless of the cost, he is the most dangerous person in the world.”
― Ken Follett, A Column of Fire

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“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

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“They say that in the hour before an earthquake the clouds hang leaden in the sky, the winds slows to a hot breath, and the birds fall quiet in the trees of the town square. Yes but these are the same portents that precede lunchtime, frankly.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

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“That is how we lived, happily and without hope. I was very young then, and I did not miss having a future because I did not know I was entitled to one.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

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“I know that the hopes of this whole human world can fit inside one soul.”
― Chris Cleave, Little Bee

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