"Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“God has a most wicked sense of humor.”
“A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.”

Source : Billie Burke, Cameron Shipp (2016). “With Powder on My Nose”, p.64, Pickle Partners Publishing
“When I was a kid if I was unhappy, I'd stroke my dog. I was into bringing injured birds into the house, RSPCA activities. And the relationship that you have with animals, you can get that from your children: that unquestioning love and adoration and equal need.”

Source : "EastEnd Boy". www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2001.
“The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.”
“Someone from the Internet Writing Workshop sent me a link to the Gender Genie, where you paste in a section of text and it uses an algorithm to detect whether the author is male or female. Or, if you're an author, you can tell whether you're really nailing your opposite-sex characters. I mean, nailing their dialog.”

Source : "Hand Me My Y-Chromosome". Personal blog, maxbarry.com. August 08, 2005.
“With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.”
“Sincerity is not a test of truth. We must not make this mistake: He must be right; he's so sincere. Because, it is possible to be sincerely wrong. We can only judge truth by truth and sincerity by sincerity.”
“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow... even if that someone is yourself!”

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