"I was told once by some country people that a magician should never tell his dreams because the telling will make them come true. But I say that is great nonsense."

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Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “The Ladies of Grace Adieu: and Other Stories”, p.26, A&C Black

Susanna Clarke

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“I never took to Hollywood.”
“Disability is not a brave struggle or 'courage in the face of adversity.' Disability is an art. It's an ingenious way to live.”

Source : "Storm Reading". Play by Neil Marcus, Rod Lathim, Roger Marcus and Access Theater, shown on television and performed at the Kennedy Center (1992); later quoted in Adam Benjamin "Making an Entrance: Theory and Practice for Disabled and Non-Disabled Dancers" (p. 23), 2002.
“All doctrines relating to the creation of the world, the government of man by superior beings, and his destiny after death, are conjectures which have been given out as facts, handed down with many adornments by tradition, and accepted by posterity as "revealed religion". They are theories more or less rational which uncivilised men have devised in order to explain the facts of life, and which civilised men believe that they believe.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.179
“And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.”

Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Consequences”, p.39, Penguin
“When I think of the happiness that is in store for me, every sorrow, every pain becomes dear to me.”
“Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with.”
“We set ourselves up for it with the reality show. You've seen me and Nick go at each other's throats on TV. They've got all these people giving their opinions on our marriage and how we handle it when they are watching an edited TV show.”
“How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.”

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