Alex George Quotes

#1. Always, there was music.

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#2. Sometimes life-changing moments slip by unnoticed, their significance only becoming apparent in the light of subsequent events.

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#3. We are all immigrants, a glorious confection of races and beliefs, united by the rock that we live on. As the years wash over us and new generations march into the future, family histories are subsumed into the greater narrative. We become, simply, Americans.

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#4. You'll leave. And then one day you'll come back, and everything you used to love about the place will drive you a little bit crazy.

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#5. There's just so much to live for.

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#6. When he left us, he stole all the words.

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#7. It's not about exact measurements or ingredients', shrugged Lomax, when Joseph complained. 'Good food is about feeling. Cooking is an art, not a science. You got to have soul to feed people right.' He smiled. 'That's what this is. Soul food.

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#8. When it comes to dreams and fancies and castles in the air, I have the soul of a millionaire.

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#9. I need to confront my loss, not run away from it. I wanted to wade in with my eyes open and all my senses alert. I wanted to register everything, from the giant waves of sorrow to the inkiest ripples of remorse. I didn't want to miss any of it.

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#10. The answer to most prayers is no.

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#11. My grandmother's life had been one long opera. There had been drama, heroes, villains, improbable twists, all that. But most of all there had been love, great big waves of it, crashing ceaselessly against the rocks of life, bearing us all back to grace.

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#12. From across her husband's open grave I had thought she exuded a certain foxy mystique, but now, to my disappointment, she looked just like every other mother I knew.

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#13. But love and pain are two sides of the same coin. You can't have one without the other. Sometimes that's how we know we're alive.

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