"As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent."

-- E. M. Forster

#Travel Quotes #Florence Quotes #Ease Quotes

“By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen.”
“I'd stop anyone from taking that smile from you. I would, if I were allowed.”

Source : Melissa Marr (2009). “Ink Exchange”, p.29, Harper Collins
“By todayâ€™s standards King George III was a very mild tyrant indeed. He taxed his American colonists at a rate of only pennies per annum. His actual impact on their personal lives was trivial. He had arbitrary power over them in law and in principle but in fact it was seldom exercised. If you compare his rule with that of todayâ€™s U.S. Government you have to wonder why we celebrate our independence..”
“The provincial intellectual is doomed to arguing at low level... there is still no Australian literary world, not in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide. It is some consolation to realise that there is no literary world in Birmingham or Los Angeles either. I have heard there is one in Montreal, but I don't believe it. The literary world is in London and New York, the only cities big enough to sustain magazines which can afford to reject copy.”
“Everybody is born good and everybody has got the same size soul. We're here to connect with that.”
“Then again maybe there's something that I've been doing in the privacy of my own bedroom my whole life that I think is perfectly normal but is actually illegal in thirty-two states.”
“I've got a Range Rover and a little Mercedes. I normally drive my Range Rover because I feel like a monster in it. Nobody messes with me.”

Source : "Bye-bye Baby" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2006.
“I think everyone can recognize the one-upmanship and the competition that go on wherever you are, especially among groups where the women don't have to hold down office jobs and instead get in a total snit about who won the longest carrot contest or took first prize for summer chutney in the August fete.”

Source : Rachel Johnson (2009). “In a Good Place: A Novel”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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