"It is a moon wrapped in brown paper."

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Source : Carol Ann Duffy (2013). “Mean Time”, p.30, Pan Macmillan

Carol Ann Duffy

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“Separation and devolution are two completely different concepts which cannot be mixed together. One is not a stop on the way to the other.”
“Do I as a Christian understand myself? Do I know my own real identity? My own real destiny? I am a child of God, God is my Father; heaven is my home; every day is one day nearer. My Saviour is my brother; every Christian is my brother too. Say it over and over again to yourself first thing in the morning, last thing at night, as you wait for the bus, any time when your mind is free, and ask God that you may be enabled to live as one who knows it is all utterly and completely true. For this is the Christians secret of the Christian life, of a God-honouring life.”
“I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.”
“Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.16, Broadway Books
“I think it's such utter hypocrisy that so many people in our society were obviously all watching ***** and yet we treat these people [actors] like they're sub-human. I think it's just disgusting.”
“Toward the end of his life, GÃ¶del feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt GÃ¶del's gifts might be aborted.”
“It's always challenging to go into a role.”
“One of my favorite places is Seattle. Growing up, I never thought I'd be able to go to Seattle. I grew up in eastern South Carolina, so that's as far as you can get from Seattle, unless I lived in Miami.”

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