"I know that I'm a real writer because sometimes I write a story just because I want to; not because someone's told me to."

-- Fay Weldon

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“It's not unlikely that God would lie that would be a matter of probability. It is impossible for God to lie.”
“Life is atrocious, we know. But precisely because I expect little of the human condition, man's periods of felicity, his partial progress, his efforts to begin over again and continue, all seem to me like so many prodigies which nearly compensate for the monstrous mass of ills and defeats, of indifference and error. Catastrophe and ruin will come; disorder will triumph, but order will too, from time to time.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”
“Human life is just dangerous, in general. You know, waking up in the morning, you could get hit by a car. Wherever you go, you could choke on a fish bone and die. You never know.”
“Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that -- the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2012). “I Will Repay”, p.56, House of Stratus
“Let's not forget how beautiful simply washing dishes can be.”
“I don't know of a single instance of these Arab freedom fighters holding up pictures of bin Laden. I know many instances of them displaying American flags in Benghazi or painting 'Facebook' on their foreheads in Cairo. The idea of freedom .Â .Â . is absolutely contradictory to what bin Laden stood for, which was .Â .Â . taking Muslims back to some medieval theocracy and encouraging people to die not for freedom but to go to paradise and to kill innocent people along the way. The contrast is really striking.”
“Vegemite is pretty good if you've got the right spread of butter and you spread your Vegemite light. Sometimes people spread it too thick and it's not the right consistency for it to be what it is.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Love, for me, is always wanting the best for the other person even if it's not what's best for you.”

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