"Man is a being of varied, manifold and inconstant nature. And woman, by God, is a match for him."

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Source : Dorothy Dunnett (1999). “The Disorderly Knights: The Lymond Chronicles Book Three”, p.467, Penguin UK

Dorothy Dunnett

“I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.”
“If I were just your average 23-year-old girl, and I called the police to say that there were strange men sleeping on my lawn and following me to Starbucks, they would leap into action. But because I am a famous person, well, sorry, ma'am, there's nothing we can do. It makes no sense.”
“I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in the way I was before. I do feel like it was a season in hell that I passed through. But now I'm in despair and sad and confused every day because of our political situation. So the question is: Is it harder or easier to be sad with a reason?”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Accepting the key premise that the learner is the primary customer of schooling means others follow naturally. ... The core business of schooling is learning, and the quality of learning experienced by all learners should be the standard against which performance is measured.”
“To make a mountain out of a mole-hill.”
“The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think.”
“I still have a hard time saying who Johnny [ Cash ] is in one sentence. He seemed so contradictory in his actions, and I think that's probably what is most fascinating about him and what made him such an interesting character to study.”
“What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.”

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