"The whole point is, we can forget. Itâ€™s important that we forget some things. Otherwise weâ€™d go round the world carrying a hodload of stuff we just donâ€™t need."

-- Ali Smith

#Important Quotes #Needs Quotes #World Quotes

“It would have cost me more trouble to escape from injustice, than it does to submit to it.”
“Write what you care about and understand. Writers should never try to outguess the marketplace in search of a salable idea; the simple truth is that all good books will eventually find a publisher if the writer tries hard enough, and a central secret to writing a good book is to write on that people like you will enjoy.”
“I'm a coyote shapeshifter playing in a world of werewolves and vampires---outmatched is n understatement.”

Source : Patricia Briggs (2010). “Silver Borne: Mercy Thompson”, p.10, Hachette UK
“You know what has made me the happiest I've ever been? Seeing my son and daughter graduate from college. More than wanting them to be educated, I wanted them to be nice people. To see that they have become both is just a wonderful thing.”
“If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.”
“Physics is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but rather as the development of methods of ordering and surveying human experience. In this respect our task must be to account for such experience in a manner independent of individual subjective judgement and therefore objective in the sense that it can be unambiguously communicated in ordinary human language.”
“If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.”
“Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension.”

Source : "Why Author Kathryn Harrison Wants Her Writing to 'Destroy Your Equilibrium'". Interview with Leigh Haber, www.oprah.com. November 2014.

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