"It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires."

-- Hilary Mantel

#Knowledge Quotes #People Quotes #Desire Quotes

“Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Finale”, p.169, Simon and Schuster
“The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.”

Source : John Henninger Reagan (1906). “Memoirs, with special reference to secession and the Civil War”
“Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.”
“I was in the black silence of a medieval street, and blindly I followed its sharp turns, comforted by the height of its narrow tenements, which seemed at any moment capable of falling together, closing this alleyway under indifferent stars like a seam.”
“The letters of famous people can be placed into two categories: there is the type of letter which becomes itself a valuable contribution to literature through its wit, style or wisdom; another kind is that whose main importance lies in the provision of a background to their author's life. Especially in the correspondence of great writers and poets, these two factors are very often combined ...”
“You keep working on your piece over and over, trying to get the sections and paragraphs and sentences and the whole just right, but there's a point at which you can tell you've begun hurting the work with your perfectionism. Then you have to release the work to new eyes.”
“I'm fifty-six years old - I'm as old as rock 'n roll.”
“When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe.”

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