"I liked having some time to myself. Our family was such a close one, you could get smothered. Of course, we didn't always agree with one another. Sometimes I quarreled with my brother and sisters, but I couldn't remember hating anyone for more than five minutes."

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Source : Gloria Whelan (2009). “Summer of the War”, p.13, Harper Collins

Gloria Whelan

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“neither tolerance nor intolerance is grounded in science and reason, but they are themselves acts of faith grounded in social custom and the politics of expediency and power”

Source : "Homosexuality: Bipotenitality, Terminology, and History" by John Money,
“It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.”
“Without wishing in the slightest degree to disparage the skill and labour of breadmakers by trade, truth compels us to assert our conviction of the superior wholesomeness of bread made in our own homes.”

Source : Eliza Acton (1868). “Modern Cookery, for Private Families: Reduced to a System of Easy Practice, in a Series of Carefully Tested Receipts, in which the Principles of Baron Liebig and Other Eminent Writers Have Been as Much as Possible Applied and Explained”, p.594
“I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.”
“The best crop of a garden, year after year, is hope.”
“Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind.”
“What an amazing and sacred place [Israel] to end the tour”
“I started thinking about my relationship with my students; I'm this guy who comes in from book - and movie - land and descends on angel wings into their classroom.”

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