"The letter we all love to receive is one that carries so much of the writerâ€™s personality that she seems to be sitting beside us, looking at us directly and talking just as she really would, could she have come on a magic carpet, instead of sending her proxy in ink-made characters on mere paper."

-- Emily Post

#Character Quotes #Talking Quotes #Personality Quotes

“The best work of literature to represent the American Dream is 'The Great Gatsby' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. It shows us how dreaming can be tainted by reality, and that if you don't compromise, you may suffer.”
“Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.”
“the recurrent drama of menstrual bleeding must have been unnerving to primitive peoples. In man, the shedding of blood is always associated with injury, disease, or death. Only the female half of humanity was seen to have the magical ability to bleed profusely and still rise phoenix-like each month from the gore.”
“Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?”

Source : Judith McNaught (2016). “Almost Heaven: A Novel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster
“Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.”
“If the machines can take the drudgery out of it and just leave us with the joy of drawing, then that's the best of both worlds - and I'll use those computers!”
“Up! Children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! and destroy them all!”

Source : "Shaka Zulu: The Rise of the Zulu Empire". Book by E. A. Ritter, p. 179, 1955.
“I love children because that's a part of my life that was so happy, and I like to remember back to those days where everything is a discovery, and the world is so fresh.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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