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“O mais importante nunca se pode fotografar (...). O que fica sempre, o que nos envolve a alma é o que não pode ser capturado pela moldura. (...) "Este silêncio tão vasto, como o posso fotografar?”

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Book:Pensageiro Frequente

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Pensageiro Frequente

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Mia Couto

Mia Couto is a Portuguese writer known for his rich literary works and unique narrative style. His works cover various literary forms such as novels, poetry, and prose, and have won the hearts of readers worldwide. more

“And there was the time Paul McCartney serenaded my wife with “Michelle.” She laughed, a little embarrassed, as the rest of the audience applauded, and I wondered what Michelle’s parents would have said back in 1965, the year the song came out, if someone had knocked on the door of their South Side home and told them that someday the Beatle who wrote it would be singing it to their daughter from a White House stage.”

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Book:A Promised Land

Source: A Promised Land

“Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights).”

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Book:You

Source: You

“Paul McCartney is so much at peace and in harmony with music that he has the power to change all weapons of war into musical instruments. That man is supremely talented and blessed with the Midas touch.”

Paul Mccartney

Author:Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Music, to Paul McCartney, is Pleasure Island. And though he’s resident there, he never gets tired of frequenting it.”