"What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?"

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Source : Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Catherine Gilbert Murdock

#Staircases Quotes

“After all, is football a game or a religion?”
“Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.”
“There's nothing wrong with a plan, but remember Von Moltke's famous dictum that no plan survives first contact with the enemy. The danger is a plan that seduces us into thinking failure is impossible and adaptation is unnecessary - a kind of â€˜Titanic' plan, unsinkable (until it hits the iceberg).”
“Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech, I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth, To bellow with the damn'd!”
“My favorite movies are love stories.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.”
“I was no hero. The dearest wishes of my heart were for safety and tranquility. The world was a perilous place, wrong for the likes of me.”
“Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.”

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