“A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
“Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.”
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Russian writer 1890–1960Related quotes
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