"So Matildaâ€™s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone."

-- Roald Dahl

#Strong Quotes #Book Quotes #Sea Quotes

“I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!”
“There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.”
“I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.”
“When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again.”
“Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.”
“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.”
“To say you loved a person. / To say that person no longer exists. / A tragic flawed fate going on and on and on.”

Source : Mary Jo Bang (2007). “Elegy: poems”, Graywolf Pr
“I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.”

Source : Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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