"Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!"

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Source : FaceBook post by Naomi Novik from Jun 25, 2014

Naomi Novik

#Nice Quotes #Book Quotes #Said Quotes

“The sweet smell of success is no perfume for a woman. Say it's old-fashioned, say it's corny, but, as far as I can see, a girl who wears a 'business scent' is not attractive. A woman who flaunts her career as if it was a new hat is not beautiful.”
“Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.”
“My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.”
“People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.”
“Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love.”
“I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don't have a great ear. It's like a tragedy - I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.”
“I was in bands as a singer-guitarist-songwriter until 1980-81. So, there's a bunch of stuff. A lot of the stuff is hard to come by-stuff by the Special Interest Group and the Zobo Funn Band. The Zobo Funn Band was a big Northeast cult band. We had about a billion skirmishes with the big rock industry.”
“Up anchor! Up anchor! Set sail and away! The ventures of dreamland Are thine for a day.”

Source : Silas Weir Mitchell (1914). “The Complete Poems of S. Weir Mitchell”, Library of Alexandria

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