"Old people who live too long come to resemble turtles. As though time turned in a curve, and down they go to the reptiles again. Not the little wet naked frog they were born. But the tortoise. Cold eyes, sagging circles of skin, the nose becomes beak. The shell of sleep."

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Source : Josephine Winslow Johnson (1996). “The Inland Island”, Writer's Digest Books

Josephine Winslow Johnson

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“Could you do a liberal propaganda tool that would bore the bejesus out of people? No.”
“The Lord calls each one of His children, no matter what his occupation-lawyer, doctor, maintenance man, carpenter, accountant, athlete, musician, teacher, homeschooling mom, and so on-to have a real prayer life.”
“The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.”

Source : Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.607, Macmillan
“Thus lynch law held sway in the far West until civilization spread into the Territories and the orderly processes of law took its place. The emergency no longer existing, lynching gradually disappeared from the West.”
“There are always differences when you adapt a novel to a film. A novel is longer so you're automatically cutting out elements and introspection but this is actually a film that stays very close to the novel.”
“When you have a certain fitness projection, it's going to give you an advantage. Having strength, stamina and speed is important because I'm working with dogs who can kill me.”
“A beau is everything of a woman but the sex, and nothing of a man beside it.”
“Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.”

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