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"Her great idea has been to be tremendously irreproachable - a kind of full-blown lily - the incarnation of propriety. She has always worshipped that god. "

"Nach einer Überarbeitung des Textes gemeinsam mit Melanchthon und nach dem Druck anfänglich nur auf einer Presse, dann auf zwei und scließlich gleichzeitig auf drei Pressen erschien das Werk in einer Auflage von 3000 Exemplaren im September 1522, gerade noch rechtzeitig zur Leipziger Herbstmesse." -- Schon die erste Lutherbibel war also eine "Herbstnovität"! :-)

"Nach einer Überarbeitung des Textes gemeinsam mit Melanchthon und nach dem Druck anfänglich nur auf einer Presse, dann auf zwei und scließlich gleichzeitig auf drei Pressen erschien das Werk in einer Auflage von 3000 Exeplaren im September 1522, gerade noch rechtzeitig zur Leipziger Herbstmesse." -- Schon die erste Lutherbibel war also eine "Herbstnovität"! :-)

"Happy things don't repeat themselves, and her adventure wore already changed, the seaward face of some romantic island from which, after feasting on purple grapes, she was putting off while the breeze rose."

"Unless you own your publishing company, however far up you are on the ladder, there`s always going to be someone further up who can make you clean out your desk by the end of the workday and sign an agreement not to bad-mouth your evictors if you want to receive your severance package."

"Anyway, she says, and she looks out to the sea again and shakes her head sadly. the best thing is not to feel all. It's all hell after fifty, boys."

But Madame Merle interrupted her. "What have my talents brought me? Nothing but the need of using them still, to get through the hours, the years, to cheat myself with some pretence of movement, of consciousness. As for my graces and memories the less said about them the better. You'll be my friend until you find a better use for your friendship."

If there were no oceans, would we have our souls?

Holy shite, this is poetry!

Holy shite, this is poetry!

A wonderful treat, and dare I say it, "such fun"!

"What he looked like was one of these state cops whose opaque black sunglasses made you think they saw everthing, saw right through you."

"Nice woman," said Suzanne, watching her go. "Hope she manages to stay that way."
"You have doubts?" asked Gamache.
"Success can mess with you. But then so can failure," she laughed again, then grew quiet.

Robert Guerini, Property owner: "I've never been able to understand race or prejudice, really. I find it very difficult. It's like going to a library and sying to the librarian, I'm sorry, I only read books with red covers."

Ashley Thomas, Estate Agent: "Everybody wants to be in London. It is perceived as being a great city in the world and everybody wants a part of it, so there's always going to be heaps of demand. That's why property Prices double every six years. We haven't got limitless land in central London. The only land you can build on is brownfield, which is old industrial. That's it. Or knock another house down."

Peter Rees, City Planning Officer: "Places make the best lovers. You ca trust a place more than you can trust a person as a lover. A place is more dependable and it has so much depth and stimulation and provides you with the opportunity to realize yourself. (...) If it's a good place it makes you feel stronger, makes you cleverer and more powerful."

"Let's get it over with, I said to the ceiling, as one so often does."

Money is the thing. Having plenty of money so you can just lie on the sofa with a glass of wine and watch the patterns the shadows make on the wall. That's enough for me."

"What happened to us, Donald?" He thought about his own question. "I mean all the hope and expectation. When we were just kids and life was nothing but potential. Everything we wanted to be, everything we could have been."

She has only recently been able to put into words the observation that people who grew up in households without fear lack awareness of others' feelings, and that this lack makes their lives easier.

...most artists embrace pretentions or particularities of dress. One does not solve the problem of beauty by denouncing it.