"Language tethers us to the world; without it we spin like atoms."

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Penelope Lively

#Atoms Quotes #World Quotes #Language Quotes

“People who claim that they're evil are usually no worse than the rest of us... It's people who claim that they're good, or any way better than the rest of us, that you have to be wary of.”
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”
“It's a good day when a goddess gets on the school-bus with you.”

Source : Barry Lyga (2007). “The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I feel much more comfortable dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. "Devil Wears Prada" did not make me change my style. But it has made me appreciate the people who do this every morning in a serious way, get dressed up and really put together that look. I mean, wow. It's amazing.”
“The camel carries on his dreary circular task with his usual slow and pompous step and head poised superciliously, as if it were a ritual affair above the comprehension of the vulgar; and no doubt he comforts himself for the dullness of life by a sense of virtue, like many other formalists beside him.”
“WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT. IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS.”
“The difficult thing was deciding what to leave off! I just ultimately tried to strike a balance between what was interesting to hard core fans, and what was exciting to first timers and what I liked.”
“When I work on a film, I always tend to relate to the crew.”

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