"A novel should be as like life as a painting, but not as like life as a piece of waxwork."

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Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.62

Mary Russell Mitford

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“The most important healing - realizing who you are. The healing on the outer level is fine, but it's not the essence of healing.”
“What is your greatest ambition in life?' 'To become immortal... and then die.”
“Zionism wants to define the Jewish people as a national entity ... which is a heresy.”
“I'm a visual thinker. With almost all of my writing, I start with something that's visual: either the way someone says something that is visual or an actual visual description of a scene and color.”

Source : Source: www.dwrl.utexas.edu
“I don't want to be cool. I want to be fashion!”

Source : "Anna Dello Russo interview: Fashion gone rogue" by Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.
“Tomorrow the revolution will 'rise up again, clashing its weapons,' and to your horror it will proclaim with trumpets blazing: I was, I am, I shall be!”
“Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we infer from such manifestations of the bodily life in other creatures as indicate the presence of a consciousness similar to our own.”
“In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.”

Source : "Padma Lakshmi: I Don’t Parent Alone" by Yahoo! Shine interview, celebritybabies.people.com. November 03, 2011.

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