"If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised."

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Source : Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.2, Macmillan

Therese Anne Fowler

“Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produce their own image on men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer.”
“I have been under considerable pressure to buy at least a laptop computer. I have always turned the suggestions down for the reason that I have never done creative work on a typewriter. There is to me a lack of empathy.”
“I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.”
“The dead walk among us. Zombies, ghouls-no matter what their label-these somnambulists are the greatest threat to humanity, other than humanity itself.”
“My number one inspiration was my mother. She worked two jobs and had breakfast and dinner prepared. I essentially called my mother, The Lion. She's fierce and she's proud. I'd like to think some of that rubbed off on me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“During a term in office there are highs and lows, but what counts is that the goal is set as well as the means to achieve it, and the force we put into getting results.”
“My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.”

Source : "Nick Cave Sings the Blues". Interview with Brian Orloff, www.rollingstone.com. October 22, 2004.
“By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.”

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