"She had never before minded being alone. Now she dreaded it. When she was alone now she felt so dreadfully alone."

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

“The vocation of each writer is to describe the world as he or she sees it; anything more than that is advertising.”

Source : Hanif Kureishi (2014). “The Word and the Bomb”, p.5, Faber & Faber
“For every discouragement has been allowed to come to us in order that through it we may be cast in utter helplessness at the Saviour's feet.”
“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies. It's irrelevant who or what directed a movie, the important thing is that you either respond to it or you don't. There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible. It is.”
“Knowledge is merely brilliance in organization of ideas and not wisdom. The truly wise person goes beyond knowledge.”
“I had been a guerrilla leader in World War II. And I used to say that the way to fight the guerrilla was with guerrillas. And I disbelieved that you could by bombing, ah, have any effect on the supplies coming down through the Ho Chi Minh trails.”
“You have to work hard at staying in contact with your friends so that the relationships will continue and live on... Friendships, along with love, make life worth living.”
“I grew up as a Catholic, and there was so much that was beautiful there, and also so much that was troubling. The whole patriarchal thing, the whole male-dominated approach, really bothered me.”
“It is quite possible that we will soon come to live under some sort of global despotism, enlightened or not. This is not a nice prospect. And there is only one way of avoiding that this happens: to establish a global democracy. And it is not too late to strive for such a democracy, of a straightforward populist nature, where people on the globe elect a world parliament, which in turn elects a world government.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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