"It seems to me there are no rules, only instances; but perhaps that is because I learned no rules, and am only an instance myself."

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Source : Eleanor Farjeon (1960). “A nursery in the nineties”

Eleanor Farjeon

#Instance Quotes

“My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'”
“When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.”
“The Church is the Ship outside which it is impossible to understand the Divine Word, for Jesus spoke from the boat to the people gathered on the shore.”
“I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.”
“I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.”
“When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.”

Source : "'Office' Gossip with Jenna Fischer". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.redbookmag.com. February 23, 2011.
“Or whatever politically correct spiritual representation of universal goodness you happen to believe in.”
“My Panasonic typewriter can make graphs. It types in four different colors.”

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