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“in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.”
Source : Radclyffe Hall (2015). “The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction”, p.394, Anchor
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“I've only ever seen Errol Christie fight once before and that was the best I've ever seen him fight.”
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“Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the world, and never stop reading to find out what sense other people have made of it. If people give you a hard time and tell you to get your nose out of a book, tell them you're working. Tell them it's research. Tell them to pipe down and leave you alone.”
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“I decided it would be better to be a bird. Birds are very busy at one period each year caring for babies, but this lasts only a few weeks with many of them, and then their babies are grown and gone. Best of all, they leave their houses forever and take to camping for the rest of the year. No wonder they are happy.”
Source : Margaret Morse Nice (1979). “Research Is a Passion With Me: The Autobiography of a Bird Lover”, p.41, Dundurn
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“A career path is rarely a path at all. A more interesting life is usual a more crooked, winding path of missteps, luck and vigorous work. It is almost always a clumsy balance between the things you try to make happen and the things that happen to you.”
Source : Tom Freston’s Commencement Address at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts, May 27, 2009.
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“To make sure you are not asleep when the sun begins to rise.”
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“If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost.”
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“Within Easy Company they had made the best friends they had ever had, or would ever have. They were prepared to die for each other; more important, they were prepared to kill for each other.”