"I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page"

-- Laurie Halse Anderson

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“As a full-time, and serious-minded, UFO investigator, I strongly side with the proponents. It seems indisputable that the phenomenon is real, and that it falls outside the scope of "normal" human experience.”
“We learn to endure to the end by learning to finish our current responsibilities, and we simply continue doing it all of our lives. We cannot expect to learn endurance in our later years if we have developed the habit of quitting when things get difficult now.”
“One must be willing to stand alone - in the unknown, with no reference to authority or the past or any of one's conditioning. One must stand where no one has stood before in complete nakedness, innocence, and humility.”
“If you can affect someone when theyâ€™re young, you are in their heart forever,”

Source : Mara Wilson (2016). “Where Am I Now?: True Stories of Girlhood and Accidental Fame”, p.231, Penguin
“I think the suggestion that all my songs are personal is insulting because that assumes that I have a bunch of issues that I feel the need to unload on strangers. That is not the case. It also assumes that I just talk about myself the whole time which, again, is not true.”
“Globalizing a bad thing makes it worse. But globalizing a good thing is usually good.”
“As for the Republicans -- how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, [and] steel their emotions against decent human sympathy.”

Source : Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574,
“I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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