"I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful."

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Michael Morpurgo

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Study Quotes

“Picking a best friend who stands up for what she believes in, is true to herself and allows you to be yourself without judgement of how 'cool' you are? Well, now you're picking a friend for life.”

Source : "Best Friends Forever" by Renee Olstead, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2012.
“Conflict is the very essence of life.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Album”, p.224, Overamstel Uitgevers
“Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.”
“Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood.”
“Italians' relationship to food is loving, informal, and gay ...”
“I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.”
“I use poetry to explain myself to myself. It is a way of investigating who you really are, what you feel, what survives the pressure of writing. There are a lot of things that you can't write down because they aren't true. You can only put down what holds water at the time that you are doing it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“That was always a dream of mine, to have a large family, a huge family.”

Source : "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.

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