Quotes
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Marilynne Robinson

"I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose their own thoughts. They are trying to find out what is in their minds, which is the great mystery. Finding out who you are, what is in your head, and what kind of companion you are to yourself in the course of life. I do think people have very profound lives of which they say virtually nothing."

-- Marilynne Robinson

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“Wine is drinkable sunlight. It's the most glorious summer's day imaginable, captured in a bottle.”

Source : Walter Moers (2009). “The Alchemaster's Apprentice: A Novel”, p.104, The Overlook Press
“It will be a hard game if you think about winning a championship. We need to think about our own game at the moment and focus on getting good results especially over the Christmas period.”
“I've always tried to keep in mind that I'm in grass-roots country and I'm grass-roots-born and -reared. I don't use the so-called 'sophisticated approach' to broadcasting that is used in other parts of the country.”
“Pride may go before a fall, but jealousy goes before destruction.”
“Meg Pokrass writes like a brain looking for a body. Wonderful, dark, unforgiving.”
“If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it... yes, books are like flypaperâ€”memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.21, Scholastic Inc.
“If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?”
“I mean comedy is something that's very personal and people have strong opinions about.”

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