"..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English."

-- Susanna Clarke

#Mad Quotes #Gone Quotes #Argument Quotes

“We tend to become like those whom we admire.”
“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.”
“That's another reason I did Daredevil: I didn't get killed off in it.”
“The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.”

Source : Quoted in Machlis Introduction to Contemporary Music (1963).
“I'd certainly go for a love marriage”
“the skin of moss / holds the footprints of / star-footed birds.”

Source : Nancy Willard (2014). “A Nancy Willard Reader: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.23, Open Road Media
“Every religion contains, in varying degrees, elements of the soft and the hard. For the sake of world peace, dialogue within religions and among them must strengthen the softer aspects.”
“A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.”

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