"You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it."

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Source : "Shock tactics" by Alison Brace, www.theguardian.com. July 10, 2000.

Aidan Chambers

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“Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?”
“My wife's dying upstairs and I can't do anything about it. I look in her face and I see the memories there. I see how I hurt her and how I said the wrong things and how I got angry and how I wasn't the man she hoped I'd be. I see that in her face and I see she's going to die with that. You think I'm not preoccupied?”
“You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae”
“I think my father was sick of being on the sidelines watching a bunch of incompetents in his mind. And in our world, in our business world, these people wouldn't last five minutes in real companies, and he's sick of them making decisions that are costing our children, their children behind them, trillions of dollars and really giving up the great power that we've built up over the last 200 years.”

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“When humility enters our souls, we are at last able to perceive that we do not live alone in the world but with millions of brothers and sisters, and that hidden in the heart of each is the same animating spirit.”
“A lot of people in the adult population have a very limited idea as to why they are Americans, why we have a First Amendment or a Bill of Rights.”

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“I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.”

Source : "Hope Davis: Will Six Degrees' Laura Bust Her Pal's Fiancé?". Interview with Sabrina Rojas Weiss, www.tvguide.com. October 12, 2006.
“If one of God's children finds he cannot see or feel life in other terms than those of form, if he tries to escape and live outside of this obsession and fails, he generally calls himself a sculptor.”

Source : Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

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