"There are only two periods in a woman's life when she hopes to be taken for older than she is, under sixteen and over ninety."

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Source : Ruth Rendell (2010). “A Sleeping Life: (A Wexford Case)”, p.25, Random House

Ruth Rendell

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“You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.”
“In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.”
“Back in the 1980s, when the internet was only available to a small number of pioneers, I was often confronted by people who feared that the strange technologies I was working on, like virtual reality, might unleash the demons of human nature. For instance, would people become addicted to virtual reality as if it were a drug? Would they become trapped in it, unable to escape back to the physical world where the rest of us live? Some of the questions were silly, and others were prescient.”
“If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?”
“Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly.”
“The first show I ever worked on was The Killing, which was a whodunit crime show.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“My dad taught me my faith, and I believe what he taught me. The man never lied to me in his life.”
“If you didn't auction the [CO2] permits, it would represent the largest corporate welfare program that has ever been enacted in the history of the United States. All of the evidence is that what would occur is that corporate profits would increase by approximately the value of the permits.”

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