"Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history."

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Source : Samuel Eliot Morison (1953). “By Land and by Sea: Essays and Addresses”, New York : Knopf

Samuel Eliot Morison

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“I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.”
“There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.”
“I'm always weeping at something or other.”

Source : "Gail Porter interview: I'm always walking around naked.. my little girl hates it!". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. November 9, 2010.
“My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.”
“How infinitely happier and more grateful is the whole personality or spirit when it finds something nourishing in art or writing or thinking, than the mere mind or intellect is: the kinship you celebrate in these personalities is your own dismembered Orpheus stumbling across another fine organ to rejoin to itself. I put it this way: aristic psyche loves itself enough to chasten itself, to put itself through boot camp for the sake of being competent for life, alive to life.”
“What are stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?”
“You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.”
“It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.”

Source : Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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