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“There is a select group of writers who are accessible to anyone, at whatever age or stage of life – Homer, Shakespeare, Goethe, Balzac, Tolstoy – and then there are those whose significance is not properly revealed until a particular moment. Montaigne is one of these.” – Stefan Zweig Written by Stefan Zweig in 1942,…
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I’ll make him live, I will. Whatever you might do, I can do more, ’cause I know how to fight better than you. Amy, if you knew the horror of that place. It isn’t a hospital. It’s a desolate island haunted by death. They’ll put Pres in an open shed with a hundred others. You…
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You know, there’s something about this that’s like… well, it’s like you’re expecting a letter that you’re just crazy to get, and you hang around the front door for fear you might not hear him ring. You never realize that he always rings twice. – Frank Chambers Directed by Tay Garnett in 1946 and starring…
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“ I’m not just a whimsical figure who wears a charming suit and affects a jolly demeanor. You know, I I I’m a symbol. I’m a symbol of the human ability to be able to suppress the selfish and hateful tendencies that rule the major part of our lives. If you can’t believe, if you…
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““Are you tall? Are you short? Are your eyes blue? Are they brown? Don’t tell me. What does it matter so long as our minds meet?”- Miss Klara Novak in her letter to Mr Alfred Kralik “My heart was trembling as I walked into the post office and there you were, lying in box 237”…
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“When your head says one thing and your whole life says another, your head always loses.” – Frank McCloud Directed by John Huston in 1948 and starring Humphrey Bogart, “Key Largo” is a crime noir film that follows a group of people who are suddenly hostages in a hotel by a group of mobsters when…
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“It’s much safer to be feared than loved” (p.66). – Niccolo Machiavelli Written by Niccolo Machiavelli and published in 1432, The Prince is a political treatise that is considered one of the most famous, if not the most famous, book on politics ever written. Even if one has not heard of the man Machiavelli, the…
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“The odd thing about this form of communication is that you’re more likely to talk about nothing than something. But I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings.” – Kathleen Kelly, You’ve Got Mail Directed by Nora Ephron and set in New York City in…
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“But in the last resort, every shadow is also the child of light, and only those who have known the light and the dark, have seen war and peace, rise and fall, have truly lived their lives” – Stefan Zweig Written by Stefan Zweig, “The World of Yesterday” is a memoir, not only of his…
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Oh, my God! l love Josh. l am majorly, totally, butt crazy in love with Josh! – Cher Ugh, as if! – Cher You know you‘re gorgeous, all right? – Josh Directed by Amy Heckerling and released in 1995, Clueless is one of the most iconic coming-of-age films of the late 20th century, known for…