"Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know.""

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Stef Penney

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Knows Quotes

“Man is his own worst enemy.”
“I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.”
“Rebecca held her head high and swanned across the hallway, but as she neared the footman, she could see quite plainly that his gaze was not where it should be. She stopped dead and slapped her hands over her bosom. "Its too low, isn't it? I knew I shouldn't have listened to that maid. She might not mind her boobies hanging out for all to see, but i just can't-" Her brain suddenly caught up with her mouth. She removed her hands from her bosom and slapped them over her awful, awful, awful mouth.”
“I wasnt interested in novelty. I was looking for good drama.”
“It's good to focus on the universal suffering that goes on in any war. Whatever the right and wrongs of the war, there is always universal suffering.”
“Compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.”
“Action and flexibility create opportunity”
“The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.”

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