"You can only chase a butterfly for so long."

-- Jane Yolen

#Butterfly Quotes #Long Quotes

“There was no audience for my books. The Indians didn't regard me as an Indian and North Americans couldn't conceive of me of a North American writer, not being white and brought up on wheat germ. My fiction got lost.”
“There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.”
“Nowadays there are so many stars on television.There are all these generic stars now.There's Dave Caruso...Dave Caruso's kind of fun: "I know he killed your family...but he won't do it again." He says the stupidest sh*t. "I know he shot your children, but he won't do it any more." There isn't really a recognisable personality out there.”

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“I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.”
“Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.”
“I think if actors are successful at one thing, they paint themselves into a corner sometimes, and what's the fun in that?”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The cross of Christ is the all-sufficient ground for the salvation of sinners. It claims to be sturdy enough to support the whole weight of our guilt all by itself. Therefore, to boast in the cross properly at all is to boast in the cross alone.”
“We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.”

Source : Lisa Lutz (2010). “The Spellmans Strike Again: Document #4”, p.343, Simon and Schuster

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