"And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!"

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Source : David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.49, Hachette UK

David Almond

#Children Quotes #Kitten Quotes

“I don't have any friends from my childhood because I didn't stay at one school for very long.”
“I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.”
“All religious notions are uniformly founded on authority; all the religions of the world forbid examination, and are not disposed that men should reason upon them.”
“The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.”
“Due to his own original special nature, the Jew cannot possess a religious institution, if for no other reason because he lacks idealism in any form, and hence belief in a hereafter is absolutely foreign to him. And a religion in the Aryan sense cannot be imagined which lacks the conviction of survival after death in some form. Indeed, the Talmud is not a book to prepare a man for the hereafter, but only for a practical and profitable life in this world.”
“You hear people say: "One day, when I'm in a good position I can make my passion project." I've seen a lot of people get into that position and not make it.”
“Any time you can squeeze out the opportunity to get better, you should.”
“Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.”

Source : Barnabe Barnes (1593). “Parthenophil and Parthenophe: Sonnets, madrigals, elegies, and odes”

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