"Truth and dreams are always getting muddled,"

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Source : David Almond (2013). “Skellig”, p.41, Hachette UK

David Almond

“I was a pin-up girl. I did it for 30 years and, quite frankly, it gets a bit boring.”
“People are searching for reasons for believing, searching for answers to the big existential questions of "Why am I here?" and "What is life all about?" I find that people are able to accept the teaching of the Gospel when it's presented to them in both a rational and positive way.”

Source : "Father Jonathan Morris talks about working with Mel Gibson, Fox News, self-help books and running The Cat". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. June 2012.
“If technology has finally caught up with individual liberty, why would anyone who loves freedom want to rethink that?”
“One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.”
“Whenever a man seeks your advice he generally seeks your praise.”
“Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.100, Courier Corporation
“capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.”
“I come from a middle class background. I have travelled a lot by trains and have lived in the world. It is a world I cannot get away from; I would not even want to.”

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