"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time."

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Source : Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

Laurie Halse Anderson

#Inspirational Quotes #Death Quotes #People Quotes

“I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.”
“The deliberative sense of the community should govern.”
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive”
“When I was about six, I saw my elder siblings play chess and pestered my mother into teaching me. Very soon, I was beating everyone at home, and they thought it would be good to join a club. So my sister would take me to the Tal chess club on Thursdays and weekends.”
“When all is said, its atmosphere [England's] still contains fewer germs of aggression and brutality per cubic foot in a crowded bus, pub or queue than in any other country in which I have lived”
“In the Spirit which draws us into honest engagement with one another, including those who may be very different from us in various ways, God calls us to wake up and learn how to love and respect one another, period.”
“I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen.”
“There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.”

Source : Roger Zelazny (2016). “This Immortal”, p.100, ibooks

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