"The world becomes a wider place, with but a little learning."

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Source : Susanna Kearsley (2014). “The Firebird”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

Susanna Kearsley

#World Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I was never a doodler. I had never felt a drive to draw... Actually when I was a kid, I really hated art classes. My father was a kind of a Sunday painter and he liked to draw and do water colors. So, I would bring him my assignment and he would do them for me, because it was easy for him to do...”
“I've done it with all my films. I always keep an eye on the first time I show it because... I don't know. Neurosis.”
“For nearly 2,000 years of Christian civilization, taking the life of an unborn child was regarded as a vile and heinous moral offense which degraded humanity. . . . Abortions to avoid illegitimate births, or otherwise for convenience, were performed with a secrecy that was as much the mark of the shame attaching to the deed as a consequence of its illegality.”
“A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.”
“Yeah, itâ€™s really great. I mean, the clonesbiansâ€”you know, I have to say, I feel sometimes that fiction can reflect reality and sometimes even affect it. And Iâ€™m really proud to play a gay character whose main problem is not that sheâ€™s gay, which it shouldnâ€™t be for anyone. So, Iâ€™m really proud of that.”
“A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether my family is bane or meaning, but they have surely gone away and left a large hole in my heart.”

Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.242, LSU Press
“If you want to be a leader, the first person you have to lead is yourself.”
“Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie.”

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