"Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another."

-- Linn Ullmann

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“If your meals consistently revolve around corpse multiple times daily, you might become one sooner than you planned.”

Source : Kris Carr, Sheila Buff (2011). “Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, And Live Like You Mean It!”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield
“The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly 's at full length.”

Source : "Specimens of British Poetesses". Book by Alexander Dyce, 1825.
“Praise consists in the love of God, in wonder at the goodness of God, in recognition of the gifts of God, in seeing God in all things He gives us, ay, and even in the things that He refuses to us; so as to see our whole life in the light of God; and seeing this, to bless Him, adore Him, and glorify Him.”

Source : Henry Edward Manning (1874). “Sin and Its Consequences”, p.256
“I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.”
“You'd phone or knock on the door of your friend or neighbour if they hadn't appeared at your local pub or bar for a few days, just to make sure they weren't dead in the cellar.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“The best piece of advice I ever received about being a writer came from my brother Lee. I was just starting out and he told me that if I wanted to have a long career, I had to be versatile, that I shouldn't just think of myself in one way, because there would come a time when maybe that one thing wasn't working out for me - and I'd still want to earn a living as a writer.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling past the graveyard, because the average voter is only going to remember that one of the big Republican head honchos in Congress was indicted. They won't remember the name or position, but they'll remember it says Congress is corrupt and maybe the majority party is corrupt.”
“Massage therapists, and others in the holistic arts ... seem to be a particularly gullible bunch. And there are a lot of people who have seized upon that, and marketed their products, their classes, their modalities, and their wild claims to us ... and many of us have fallen for it, hook, line and sinker ... and unfortunately, gone on to convince our clients to buy into it, as well. ... Our profession has turned into the snake oil medicine show.”

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