"By the time I was in sixth grade I could bound every country in the world from memory."

-- Clyde Tombaugh

#Country Quotes #Memories Quotes #World Quotes

“I'm looking for stories that make me sit up and take notice. For engagement with language and style in ways that the genre doesn't see enough of.”

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“I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.”

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“We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.”

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“Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.”
“Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant.”
“deep down I believe my year was a special year: it produced me.”
“The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.”
“Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.”

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