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- Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and… — Calvin Trillin
- So-called real life has only once interfered with me, and it had been a far cry from what the words, lines, books… — Cees Nooteboom
- Its subtlest, most appealing accomplishment may be in how other characters respond to Gregorius' precipitous swerve onto the spiritual path. (...) That… — Michelle Huneven
- I have read some of [the Lisbon Treaty] but not all of it. — Caroline Flint
- It's not too late to stop the Lisbon Treaty. — William Hague
- I think that the EU with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment. — Angela Merkel
- I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except… — Jose Saramago
- I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right… — Jose Saramago
- On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese-… — Jeffrey Eugenides
- In the end, the tortures tearing the Lisbon girls pointed to a simple reasoned refusal to accept the world as it was… — Jeffrey Eugenides
- They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they… — Jeffrey Eugenides
- that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep — Jeffrey Eugenides