"My novels are high concept. I guess big ideas interest me more than, say, the minutiae of domestic life."

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Scarlett Thomas

#Ideas Quotes #Minutiae Quotes #Bigs Quotes

“We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith.”
“If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.”
“The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.”

Source : Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (2005). “The rule of four”, Egully.com
“The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.”
“I never knew a man who was good at making excuses who was good at anything else.”
“We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.”
“We were working from very exact models and dimensions and weights of clay to make these pots which had been designed some 10 or 12 years previous to our arriving [at Bernard's Leach studio]. And we, being, I guess you would say young, arrogant Americans, thought that we ought to be able to somehow express ourselves a little bit more in the daily work of the pottery.”
“Witchcraft was hung, in History, But History and I Find all the Witchcraft that we need Around us, every Day -”

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