Gail Anderson-Dargatz famous quotes
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I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.
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Merilyn Simonds maintains an effortless balance between the dictates of story and memory . . .these aren't just the stories of one life; here are the patterns found in all our lives, richly celebrated.
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Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.
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A Complicated Kindness is just that: funny and strange, spellbinding and heartbreaking, this novel is a complicated kindness from a terrifically talented writer.
-- Gail Anderson-Dargatz
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...
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There's the South Pole, said Christopher Robin, and I expect there's an East Pole and a West Pole, though people don't like talking about them.
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God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
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Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
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The Constitution doesn't belong to a bunch of judges and lawyers. It belongs to you.
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A lawyer's brief will be brief, before a freethinker thinks freely.
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