"Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will"

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Source : Donna Leon (2009). “Acqua Alta: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery”, p.132, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Donna Leon

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“I didn't go up to the plate thinking, 'OK, my goal now is to get a hit'-I tried not to think about [the streak].”
“A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.”
“I think in real life most of us don't know how to communicate our deepest feelings very well.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The 'public' artist confirms the world that we already accept, though he inevitably widens our experience of it; his method is one of research, the progressive uncovering of detail.”
“You alone became the outer surface of my life, the side I never see, and you will be that, the unknown part of me, until I die.”
“At the core of every human being, there is a need for love.”
“We meet God through entering into a relationship both of dependance on Jesus as our Saviour and Friend and of discipleship to Him as our Lord and Master.”
“I don't think writers choose the genre, the genre chooses us. I wrote out of the wish to create order out of disorder, the liking of a pattern.”

Source : "PD James, Queen of Detective Fiction: Interview". Interview With Jake Kerridge, www.telegraph.co.uk. September 26, 2009.

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