"Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case."

-- Ellis Peters

#May Quotes #Bitter Quotes #Substitutes Quotes

“As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.”

Source : Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 21, 2010.
“[Demystifying lesbian sex for an interviewer] In a way, the sex isn't really that different... From what I can tell, no, not really. All the things that men and women do together, think of everything that men and women do together, women and women can do together. And that makes you realize that sex is just simply about connecting with another person, or about intimacy...”
“Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous.”
“I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go.”

Source : "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.
“Turning a negative into a positive is an expressway to success.”
“If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person....”
“When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.”
“A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.”

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