"I think that novels are one of the best means that we have to communicate both with the past and with the future."

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Emily Barton

#Mean Quotes #Past Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.”
“Creative Arts raise a person to another level of consciousness as if you could imagine life before words.”
“The loveliest, sweetest flower that bloomed in paradise, and the first that died, has rarely blossomed since on mortal soil. It is so frail, so delicate, a thing, it is gone if it but look upon itself; and she who ventures to esteem it hers proves by that single thought she has it not.”
“Everybody has to move, run and grab as many (Palestinian) hilltops as they can to enlarge the (Jewish) settlements because everything we take now will stay ours...Everything we don't grab will go to them.”
“I wish I could do it again, only I wish I could take all of the animals out of the environmental fur farm ... I have absolutely no regrets, and I hope the same thing continues to happen at MSU and every other college campus that does animal research.”
“The Danger of a Single Storyâ€, which has resonated with me immensely every time I read it. â€œPower is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story, and to start with, â€œsecondly.”
“When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.”
“I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.”

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