"I cannot, will not, withhold from my young readers the harsh realities of human hunger and suffering and loss, but neither will I neglect to plant that stubborn seed of hope that has enabled our race to outlast wars and famines and the destruction of death."

-- Katherine Paterson

#War Quotes #Loss Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.”
“After the editing room, I go and take a nap. I'm not in the practice of writing, and I feel like I'm flabby, and I have to start arriving at the desk every day, and take off one hat and put on another one. So I'm starting, but it's very sloooow.”
“I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.”
“Still when I go on talk shows, I worry that I have to live up to a comedic persona.”
“I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.”
“... there is a place in the United States for the Negro. They are real American citizens, and at home. They have fought and bled and died, like men, to make this country what it is. And if they have got to suffer and die, and be lynched, and tortured, and burned at the stake, I say they are at home.”

Source : Amanda Smith (1893). “An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist; Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa, as an Independent Missionary”
“There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.”

Source : 1925 Polyglots, ch.7.
“The world of chemical reactions is like a stage, on which scene after scene is ceaselessly played. The actors on it are the elements.”

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