"There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way."

-- Jonathan Stroud

#Men Quotes #Mirrors Quotes #Cheesy Quotes

“When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read.”
“Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.”
“I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.”
“Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.”
“An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it.”

Source : Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “An Artist of the Floating World”, p.119, Faber & Faber
“The fight against unfair scheduling is like the fight for a regulated work day - it's people fighting for reasonable conditions at work and to have a life, so you can have some leisure.”
“After Memory Keepers Daughter, it took me a few months to shut out the world. I really had to turn off the Internet and sort of cloister myself away from the world again and sink into that psychic space to write again.”
“In God becoming human in Jesus Christ, God has established solidarity with the human condition.”

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