"love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people."

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Source : Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

Anita Shreve

#Love Is Quotes #People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“The mind and the body are like parallel universes. Anything that happens in the mental universe must leave tracks in the physical one”
“I haven't always thrown hard, but eventually my (velocity) caught up with my mechanics.”
“Last week I was listening to a podcast on Hanselminutes, with Robert Martin talking about the SOLID principles â€¦ they all sounded to me like extremely bureaucratic programming that came from the mind of somebody that has not written a lot of code, frankly.”
“It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I,who were both Jewish, were going over toidentify the remains of a man who was soanti-Semitic.”
“I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It needs to be something that people are willing to assume if it feels relevant, given the context of any situation”
“If you want my views of history, there's something you should know. The three men I admire the most are Curly, Larry, and Mo.”
“The material of typography is the black, and it is the designerâ€™s task with the help of this black to capture space, to create harmonious whites inside the letters as well as between them.”
“A lot of my stories are inspired by Japanese folklore or literature or movies: I've done stories based on Kabuki and Noh plays, and on Kurosawa's 'Yojimbo' movies.”

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