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Sue Townsend

"I've always loved books. I'm passionate about them. I think books are sexy. They are smooth and solid and contain delightful surprises. They smell good. They fit into a handbag and can be carried around and opened at will. They don't change. They are what they are and nothing else. One day I want to own a lot of books and have them nbear to me in my house, so that I can stroll to my bookshelves and choose what I fancy. I want a harem. I shall keep my favourites by my bed."

-- Sue Townsend

#Sexy Quotes #Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think a reason why TV is exciting and getting so much better is because we [authors] get to play off of an actor's strengths and challenge them on their weaknesses. On a feature [film], you don't necessarily get to do that. You hope that they cast the right guy, who comes in and plays your part.”
“Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.”
“No man can well doubt the propriety of placing a president of the United States under the most solemn obligations to preserve, protect, and defend the constitution. It is a suitable pledge of his fidelity and responsibility to his country; and creates upon his conscience a deep sense of duty, by an appeal, at once in the presence of God and man, to the most sacred and solemn sanctions which can operate upon the human mind.”
“Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is”
“... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.”
“I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.”
“Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive".”

Source : Hope Mirrlees (2012). “Lud-in-the-Mist”, p.125, F+W Media, Inc.
“Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.”

Source : Thomas McGuane (2014). “The Longest Silence: A Life in Fishing”, p.15, Vintage

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