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“The figures of the past go cloaked. They walk in mist and rain and snow And go, go slowly, but they go.”
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“The other thing is that it's really hard to separate out the harassment from everything we do. When we started creating Tropes, we were hyper-aware of the intense scrutiny, the intense harassment, and the intense pressure to do something meaningful given the attention both positive and negative. That's carried over in terms of making sure that I produce the best work that I can, that's the most accurate, the most sensitive and engaged.”
Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
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“You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.”
Source : Lee Child (2001). “Echo Burning: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.107, Penguin
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“The important thing is to keep trying”
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“All the spookiness comes from giving a contemporary anachronistic sense to terms whose historical meaning is lost to us.”
Source : "Diotima’s child". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. September 21, 2012.
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“Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.”
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“I don't know everything about the Southern Hemisphere, but if you're fans of something as bad as Vegemite, we must have similar interests.”
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“My philosophy when it came to pets was much like that of having children: You got what you got, and you loved them unconditionally regardless of whatever their personalities or flaws turned out to be.”
Source : Gwen Cooper (2010). “Homer's Odyssey”, p.15, Random House