"If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it."

-- James A. Michener

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“I believe that Israel must concede to the Palestinian right of return in principle. Israel must, first of all, assume its responsibility for what happened in 1948, as far as we are to blame - and we are to blame for a great part of it, if not for all - and we must recognize in principle the right of refugees to return.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic department - and even many literary writers look and behave like young urban professionals and canny careerists.”
“It would be great to give back to this city and its youth brigade important lessons that will help them become future champions. I look forward to this opportunity.”
“Who owns Cross Creek? The red-birds, I think, more than I, for they will have their nests even in the face of delinquent mortgages..It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed, but not bought. It may be used, but not owned. It gives itself in response to love and tending, offers its sesonal flowering and fruiting. But we are tenants and not possessors, lovers, and not masters. Cross Creek belongs to the wind and the rain, to the sun and the seasons, to the cosmic secrecy of seed, and beyond all, to time..."”

Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.329, Booklassic
“I Wanted To Sign Scholes For Killie But Fergie Burst Out Laughing”
“I didn't like my mouth because I always felt like it was a sausage for a bottom lip, and I have an overbite, so I can't exactly close my mouth. It's really, really hard! But now I like it because it's kind of sultry, and it's my mouth. I should say I don't consider my bottom lip a sausage lip now - I like it, but I guess I grew into it. I definitely saved a couple hundred bucks instead of getting fillers.”

Source : Source: www.glamour.com
“I learned that if we set our mind to things, we can accomplish almost anything no matter what the circumstances are.”
“No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.”

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