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“Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.”
Source : Alexander McCall Smith (2010). “The Double Comfort Safari Club”, p.211, Anchor
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“Because I'm Irish, I've always done an accent. Not doing an accent is off-putting because I sound like me. I love doing an accent. Doing the accent from West Virginia was great, and we had to get specific with it.”
Source : Source: collider.com
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“The judge placed his hands on the ground. He looked at his inquisitor. This is my claim, he said. And yet everywhere upon it are pockets of autonomous life. Autonomous. In order for it to be mine nothing must be permitted to occur upon it save by my dispensation.”
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“Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted "first readers".”
Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Rose Tremain, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
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“History depends on who is telling the story.”
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“If I am interested, amazed, stimulated to work, that is sufficient reason to thank the gods, and go ahead!”
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“As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet.”
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“I couldn't describe how little interest I have in men. Or I could - but I don't think that it would be appropriate.”