"Why do you want to become an author? I will accept only one answer. If it is because you feel you can write better than you can do anything else then go ahead and do it without frills and flourishes. Stick to your present job and write in your spare time: but do it as if it is a whole time job."

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Source : Ngaio Marsh (1996). “Death on the Air and Other Stories”, HarperCollins Publishers

Ngaio Marsh

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“If I and a need meet, God must have had in mind my filling it.”
“I feel like men don't hold the door open as much.”

Source : "Karen Gillan Talks Shaving Her Head and Being a Female Villain In a Marvel World on the Set of GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY". Group interview, collider.com. July 8, 2014.
“The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.”

Source : "Damage: a novel".
“I despise simplicity. It is the negation of all that is beautiful.”
“The collective dream is the hypnosis of social conditioning. Only sages, psychotics & geniuses manage to break free.”
“I think as a pregnant woman we're all looking for stuff that makes us all look cute and fashionable and feel sexy when we're pregnant.”
“Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?”
“We get talent and scale from mergers.”

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