"I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children."

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Gene Luen Yang

#Children Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.52, A&C Black
“We all need to begin thinking out of the box.”
“We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.”
“You can't have oil without oil spills.”
“I can get pissed off very easily.”
“My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?”

Source : Charles Fort (2008). “The Book of the Damned: The Collected Works of Charles Fort”, p.846, Penguin
“The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.”

Source : Colley Cibber (1777). “The double gallant; Ximena; the comical lovers; The non-juror”, p.83
“The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied. Liberty is not foolproof. For its beneficent working it demands self-restraint, a sane and clear recognition of the practical and attainable, and of the fact that there are laws of nature which are beyond our power to change.”

Source : Otto Hermann Kahn (1918). “Frenzied Liberty: The Myth of "a Rich Man's War"”

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