"I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature."

-- Trudi Canavan

#Literature Quotes #Stories Quotes #Elements Quotes

“Storylines are how characters create the plots involved in their stories.”
“Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.”

Source : Samuel Gompers, John McBride, William Green (1922). “The American Federationist”
“You see, I am a very conventional scientist, really.”
“It is on account neither of God's weakness nor ignorance that evil comes into the world, but rather it is due to the order of his wisdom and the greatness of his goodness that diverse grades of goodness occur in things, many of which would be lacking if no evil were permitted. Indeed, the good of patience would not exist without the evil of persecution; nor the good of preservation of life in a lion if not for the evil of the destruction of the animals on which it lives.”
“I am MacWonder one moment and MacBlunder the next.”
“For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.”

Source : Ana Castillo (1995). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”, Plume Books
“While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.”
“I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign.”

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