"There's a fearful term that's in fashion at the moment - closure. People apparently believe it is desirable and attainable."

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Source : Penelope Lively (2012). “How It All Began: A Novel”, p.147, Penguin

Penelope Lively

#Fashion Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.”

Source : Lynn Viehl (2005). “Private Demon: A Novel of the Darkyn”, p.27, Penguin
“The issues for journalism and journalists, we see obvious places where presentation is very different in a digital space from traditional print. If you go to a New York Times homepage, you cannot get to a story about the Ukraine without a click-off on a banner ad or a slide show. They're not alone in that - you think you're clicking on a video about a news event and you have a 30-second ad that you have to watch before you can get to it.”
“The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.”
“It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.”
“I enjoy total creative control right now. Nobody tells me to make it longer, shorter, better, sexier, more violent, whatever.”
“The race film had confirmed a dead heat. That was great. But even better, most of the New York press finally learned to spell my name correctly.”
“I'm in love with a philosophy major, and she doesn't even know I exist. And what's worse, she can prove it.”
“What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.”

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