"Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness."

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Source : Ali Smith (2007). “The Accidental”, p.49, Anchor

Ali Smith

#Goodness Quotes #Shattered Quotes #Filled Quotes

“It's what each of us sows, and how, that gives us character and prestige.”
“The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write.”
“I do try not to spend much time reading in the suspense genre.”
“Hands of time move us forward, never back. Only memories frozen in mind, can we re-enact.”
“Do not call up that which you cannot put down.”
“The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience.”

Source : "Gary Gygax, Game Pioneer, Dies at 69" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. March 05, 2008.
“At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.”
“I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.”

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