"I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand."

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Source : Mary Stewart (2011). “Thornyhold”, p.84, Hachette UK

Mary Stewart

“If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean.”
“Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.”

Source : Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. June 20, 2016.
“What good is love if you never ask anything of it?”
“If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.”
“Order and system are nobler things than power.”
“A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.”
“The worst thing I ever wore, really, was rubber pants, but I don't think that was a cliche. They were just way too hot. Rubber doesn't breathe. I look back on my photos, and I dig them. I think I look really cool.”
“I love a good lyricist - always have. The thing that inspired me most was the different performers, like Tina Turner, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Madonna, even Janet Jackson.”

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