"I envied women with signature hair-dos, signature perfumes, signature sign-offs. Novelists who tell Vogue Magazine: â€œI canâ€™t live without my Smythson notebook, Pomegranate Noir cologne by Jo Malone and Frette sheetsâ€. In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system."

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Source : Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.30, A&C Black

Emma Forrest

#Notebook Quotes #Hair Quotes #Signatures Quotes

“Trying is the first step toward failure.”
“Every time you step on the football field in between those lines you're putting your life, your career, every single ligament in your body in jeopardy.”
“As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.”

Source : Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile
“The framers of our Constitution understood the dangers of unbridled government surveillance. They knew that democracy could flourish only in spaces free from government snooping and interference, and they put restraints on government overreaching in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. . . . These protections require, at a minimum, a neutral arbiter - a magistrate - standing between the government's endless desire for information and the citizens' desires for privacy.”
“Why should we not ... instead of the paltry offerings we make, do something that will prove that we are really in earnest in claiming to be followers of him who, though he was rich, for our sake became poor?”

Source : Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.223, Mercer University Press
“hope is like a piece of string when youâ€™re drowning; it just isnâ€™t enough to get you out by itself.”
“Love is the harmony of two souls singing together.”
“I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.”

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