"childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days."

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Source : Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins

Kate Green

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“Lower prices are not service; they're just lower prices.”
“Governance is key to a robust Health IT system.”
“It is Basic Management 101 that if you reward failure you are going to get more failure, and if you want success you should reward success. But if you look at the way this administration has approached national security, they have kind of got that principle backwards.”
“My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.”

Source : 'Diary' 19 December 1662
“Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.”
“Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.”
“I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me.”
“Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to deathâ€”and I refuse suicide.”

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