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‘Amanda may be a fresh-faced beauty, but she’s also an actress, very calculating and a shameless liar,’ Mignini commented.
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“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
James Waterman Wise

Joseph Conrad
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it, not a sentimental pretence but an idea: and an unselfish belief in the idea--something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to...”
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Thomas Pynchon
“. . . yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of promise, gone and unrecoverable, of the land almost allowed to claim its better destiny, only to the claim jumped by evildoers known all too well, and taken instead and held hostage to the future we must live in now forever.”
Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

William Shakespeare
“Parting is such sweet sorrow that I shall say goodnight till it be morrow.”
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

John Milton
“Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me man? Did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?”
John Milton, Paradise Lost

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