"I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's."

-- Carolyn Wells

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“So quiet and subtle is the beauty of December that escapes the notice of many people their whole lives through.. Colour gives way to form. every branch distinct, in a delicate tracery against the sky.. new vistas obscured all Summer by leafage, now open up.”

Source : "The Peverel Papers: A Yearbook of the Countryside". Book by Flora Thompson. December Chapter, 1986.
“I have talked to stunt drivers all my life, 32 years of talking to stunt drivers. There's a craziness to them.”
“If you are in Brazil and you grew up in a right-wing dictatorship, you think Marxism is liberating. But if you grew up in Czechoslovakia, and the Soviet Union is controlling everything and killing people, then you think capitalism is liberating. Neither of those two things are true and it doesn't take a lot brains to understand this.”
“I'm not out here looking for no garbage cans to curl up in. I'm looking for the same good dreams everybody else is hoping for, but I don't see where they are. Or maybe I see where they are, but I don't see how to get there.”
“Asking what I considered an impossible salary when I didn't want to work for someone has boosted my pay again and again.”
“He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.”
“There is, in my mind, no higher compliment to pay a non-fiction book than to say it reads like a novel.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.”

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