"Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid in their houses, but a very short while later, if all seemed quiet, they came out again and started selling each other potatoes."

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Source : Frances Hardinge (2011). “Fly By Night”, p.315, Pan Macmillan

Frances Hardinge

#Kings Quotes #People Quotes #Rose Quotes

“I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The anchorman on 'The Simpsons' is a reasonable facsimile of some anchors who have that problem.”
“It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.”
“Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things.”
“Nothing seemed as scary as waking up at 40 and realizing that I had not lived a very courageous life.”

Source : "How to Succeed in Hollywood Despite Being Really Beautiful". Interview with Emma Rosenblum, www.nytimes.com. June 24, 2011.
“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.”
“I don't promote boxing, I promote people. Boxing is a catalyst to bring people together.”
“We see quite clearly that what happens to the nonhuman, happens to the human. What happens to the outer world, happens to the inner world.”
“We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized,”

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