"Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition."

-- Ellen Kushner

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“No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche.”
“Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with him?”
“Personally, all I ever want to be wearing are jeans.”
“Maybe this will be the beginning of a trend? Flat taxes, cutting foreign aid, a referendum on Europe, grammar schools. Who knows?”
“Deeds, not words shall speak to me.”
“I must have gone through $10 million during my career. Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene ...”
“There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.”

Source : Philip Sidney, Geoffrey Shepherd, R.W. Maslen (2002). “An Apology For Poetry (Or The Defence Of Poesy): Revised and Expanded Second Edition”, p.87, Manchester University Press

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