"Out of the darkness came Mr Carsington's deep voice, cool and calm. " Pray don't trouble yourselves, gentlemen. It is merely a villain come to cut our throats, rob our stores and ravish our women. No need for alarm. Mrs Pembroke has the matter in hand."

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Source : Loretta Chase (2005). “Mr. Impossible”, p.194, Penguin

Loretta Chase

#Cutting Quotes #Hands Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I think playing coy is silly. Speak your mind. If a man gets turned off, he's the wrong man.”
“I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.”

Source : Fynn (2013). “Mister God, This is Anna”, p.24, HarperCollins UK
“A man is ever apt to contemplate himself out of all proportion to his surroundings.”
“When [Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.”
“Most people who work with me can tell you I'm a bit of a pessimist about business stuff. Not because I don't believe in what I'm doing, I just don't like feeling presumptuous. Like, 'This is what's going to happen!' Honestly, I don't know what will happen.”
“Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them to life. Art contains the allied ideas of making and begetting, of being master of one's craft and able to create. Without these properties no art exists and no photographic art can come into being”
“Art is not in some far-off place.”

Source : Lydia Davis (2008). “Break It Down: Stories”, p.59, Macmillan
“I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.”

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