"I want to write about grown-up things."

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Nicola Griffith

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“As might be expected of creatures so heavenly in color, the disposition of bluebirds is particularly angelic. Gentleness and amiability are expressed in their soft musical voice. Tru-al-ly, tru-al-ly, they sweetly assert when we can scarcely believe that spring is here; tru-wee, tur-wee they softly call in autumn when they go roaming through the countryside in flocks of azure.”
“Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.”
“Labor has come out with a series of proposals to increase taxes, including taxes on people across Australia saving for their retirement, he has actually identified so far zero dollars in spending reductions.”
“We become lost in being everywhere but here and now, and the ironic part is that the present is the only place that will make us feel better.”
“Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.”
“It would be well for those interested to reflect whether there now exists, or ever has existed, a wealthy and civilized community in which one portion did not live on the labor of another; and whether the form in which slavery exists in the South is not but one modification of this universal condition... Let those who are interested remember that labor is the only source of wealth, and how small a portion of it, in all old and civilized countries, even the best governed, is left to those by whose labor wealth is created.”
“Millie Beggs, by the time she was forty-five, had become an emotional anarchist.”
“A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.”

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