"If you spend fifteen minutes in a shopping mall, you will pass more people than our ancestors saw during their entire lifetimes."

-- Rolf Dobelli

#Shopping Quotes #People Quotes #Fifteen Quotes

“When I was fifteen, I remember my mum taking me to the posh clothes shop on London Road to get my first grown-up coat. It was royal-blue and very adult, and I thought, Gosh, this is great! But when my mum said to the assistant, "What's the lowest price you'll take for this?" I nearly died of shame, and wanted to run away.”
“If you want the reader to accept the premise as a given, then being specific is vital. This is what I'm after; I want the reader to accept the setting and the mindset of the characters, so we can get on with the story.”

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“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
“It is not, of course, the subject that is or isn't dull, but the quality of attention that we do or do not pay to it. Dull subjects are those we have failed.”

Source : William Matthews (1989). “Curiosities”, Univ of Michigan Pr
“I enjoy the process of writing collaboration so there's some stuff that already that may happen and then some stuff that I'm initiating that I may write on my own.”
“The shadow is the greatest teacher for how to come to the light.”
“Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism.”
“All the world can be found in poetry. All you need to see and hear. All the moments, good and bad, joyous and sad.”

Source : Patricia Maclachlan (2009). “Baby”, p.61, Yearling

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