"All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.”
“There are some effects of the biome. Compact bodies tend to conserve heat relative to linear ones. This can affect average height as well as body proportions. The study participants Europeans and Americans do not fall into the range where this effect is powerful, however.”
“Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.”
“It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained.”

Source : "Chest Deep in Southern Literature: A Conversation with Daniel Woodrell". Interview with Brendan Dowling, publiclibrariesonline.org. May 20, 2013.
“I waited for her to catch up, and when I did, she slowed down, and I missed seeing the light in her hair. I never told Nadia how much I liked seeing the halo the sunlight made of her hair. Sometimes silence is a habit that hurts.”

Source : E. L. Konigsburg (1999). “The View from Saturday”, p.70, Simon and Schuster
“The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.”
“Religious leaders could play a significant role in making explicit the connections between current concerns for the environment and age-old teachings about our dependence on the natural world, and the dangers of greed and excess”
“It is difficult to be yourself on court, as you become very involved in the match and very focused.”

Source : "Q&A: Dominika Cibulkova on Xperia Hot Shots". Interview with Ellen J. Horrow, www.usatoday.com. March 20, 2011.

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