"I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all."

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Source : Sarah Dunant (2006). “In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel”, p.264, Random House

Sarah Dunant

#Memories Quotes #Talking Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a tongue can express and a heart conceive.”
“For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other and with the environment... I try to apply my imagination to what could have happened and how a little child could have viewed and processed the event.”

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“I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.”
“The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.”
“Civilization is in no immediate danger of running out of energy or even just out of oil. But we are running out of environment-that is, out of the capacity of the environment to absorb energy's impacts without risk of intolerable disruption-and our heavy dependence on oil in particular entails not only environmental but also economic and political liabilities.”
“Style as a concept has been hijacked to mean elite, refined and expensive when it should be thought of as a basic expression of life in much the same way as we all identify with music or speech.”
“Science is a way of life which can only flourish when men are free to have faith.”
“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.”

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