"At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power"

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Source : Susan Wiggs (2001). “The you I never knew”

Susan Wiggs

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“Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst”
“Compromise cannot be allowed in cases where the exact truth is ascertainable.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”
“I consider books to be good for our health, and also our spirits, and they help us to become poets or scientists, to understand the stars or else to discover them deep within the aspirations of certain characters, those who sometimes, on certain evenings, escape from the pages and walk among us humans, perhaps the most human of us all.”
“What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?”
“It's time to recognize what compromise means: no side wins or loses all.”
“I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.”

Source : "Ebbers found guilty over $11bn fraud at WorldCom" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2005.
“Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, "I knew girls who saved his gum."”
“Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.”

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