"People are curious. A few people are. ... They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish."

-- Alice Munro

#Notebook Quotes #Reading Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“For me, making films is about trying to work something out by myself in quite a lonely way. I find the whole thing very lonely really.”

Source : "Real life in the Fish Tank" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2009.
“And it has been sarcastically said, that there is a wide difference between a good physician and a bad one, but a small difference between a good physician and no physician at all; by which it is meant to insinuate, that the mischievous officiousness of art does commonly more than counterbalance any benefit derivable from it.”

Source : Gilbert Blane (1821). “Elements of Medical Logick”, p.10
“There are lawyers who believe in client-centered representation and who are dedicated on the same level I feel I was dedicated.”
“Next time you want to quit, think who you want to be. Quitters never win.”
“Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a writer and our family's life have been enriched by this. I think a writer has to experience new environments. There is that adage: No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.”
“When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.”

Source : Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York
“Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.”
“I have an incredibly dark, mysterious, witchy side and another side that's very bubbly and cheerleader-esque.”

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