"A movie about the past is not the same as the past."

-- Margaret Atwood

“The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.”

Source : Henry Morton Stanley (1890). “In Darkest Africa”
“Love is something, if you give it away, you end up having more.”
“After all I've seen, if I hadn't learned compassion, I wouldn't be worth much.”
“If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air.”
“The challenge is either to build an economy that is sustainable or to stay with our unsustainable economy until it declines. It is not a goal that can be compromised. One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come.”
“We remember Ronald Reagan as a man who maximized his gifts from an unknown to an actor to a Governor to the leader of the Free World.”
“Tropical nights are hammocks for lovers.”
“Children born of fairy stock Never need for shirt or frock, Never want for food or fire, Always get their heart's desire...”

You may also like:

Alice Munro
Author
Doris Lessing
Novelist
Jane Austen
Novelist
Jeanette Winterson
Writer
Kazuo Ishiguro
Novelist
Margaret Laurence
Novelist
Toni Morrison
Novelist
Ursula K. Le Guin
Author
Virginia Woolf
Writer