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19 Years in Quotes

(1990)

"A ghost has made uneasy every bed.
You are not you without me and The dead
only are pleased to be alone it said."
(R. Buckminster Fuller - 'Royal Naval Air Station')


(1991)

"We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose."
(Frank Herbert - from the 'Dune' series)


(1993)

"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. For a few weeks I was alive while she loved me."
(Humphrey Bogart - said as Dixon Steele,
'In a Lonely Place' by Andrew Salt)


(1995)

"Home is not where you live, but where they understand you."
(Christian Morgenstern)


(2001)

"It was the worst experience of my life. More terrible than watching my wife die of cancer. I am ashamed to admit that my depression felt worse than her death but it is true."
(Lewis Wolpert - 'Malignant Sadness')


(2002)

"We have all been in rooms we cannot die in."
(James Dickey - 'Adultery')

"As a general rule, people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age where they do not really know what their own kind is."
(Robertson Davies - 'A Voice from the Attic')


(2003)

"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"
(Toni Morrison - 'Song of Solomon')


(2004)

"I have been in love, and in debt, and in drink,
This many and many a year."
(Alexander Brome - 'The Mad Lover')

"A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, do what he can to change things there."
(Paule Marshall - 'The Chosen Place, The Timeless People')


(2005)

"Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before."
(Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor)


(2006)

"A minute's success pays the failure of years."
(Robert Browning - 'Apollo and the Fates')


(2007)

"Believe in yourself, but do not always refuse to believe in others."
(Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - 'Epitaph of a Small Winner')


(2008)

"Do not hit at all if it can be avoided, but never hit softly."
(Theodore Roosevelt - 'Autobiography')

"When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice."
(Joseph Louis Lagrange)


(2009)

"He led a double life. Did that make him a liar? He did not feel a liar. He was a man of two truths."
(Dame Iris Murdoch - "The Sacred and Profane Love Machine')

"Two may talk together under the same roof for many years yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends."
(Mary Catherwood - 'Marianson')