"The sooner you 'settle' the sooner you'll be allowed home" was the ruling logic; and "if you can't adapt yourself to living in a mental hospital how do you expect to be able to live 'out in the world'?" How indeed?"

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Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

Janet Frame

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“I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough.”
“The President has apologized for his activities with Monica Lewinsky. These were too little, too late, in my opinion.”
“Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.”

Source : Alice Fulton (2010). “The Nightingales of Troy”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company
“And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.”
“What we need to do is learn to work in the system, by which I mean that everybody, every team, every platform, every division, every component is there not for individual competitive profit or recognition, but for contribution to the system as a whole on a win-win basis.”
“He that is good will infallibly become better, and he that is bad will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue, and time are three things that never stand still.”

Source : Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.214
“Revival is the return of God's manifest presence to His people for the purpose of them renewing their relationship with Him, with each other and for the good of the broader society. It is necessary because much of what God determines to do, or not do, in the world is determined by His relationship to His people.”
“Society has to take the glory out of guns. Young people have no business carrying a gun. I would love to speak bluntly to those gangbanging teens and wanna-bes and tell them prison is nothing like what you think. If youâ€™re packing a gun, youâ€™re making a big mistake, and youâ€™ll regret it.”

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