"Reading to small children is a specialty."

-- Clifton Fadiman

#Children Quotes #Reading Quotes #Specialty Quotes

“Creative individuals are more likely to have not only the strengths of their own gender but those of the other one, too.”
“Ours was a storytelling family even in pleasing times, and in those days my parents looked on words as our sustenance, rich in their flavor and wholesome for the soul.”
“I used to be so good at that kind of thing," Skulduggery said quietly. "Well, my morale is certainly boosted," Valkyrie informed him. "Really?" "god no. That was terrible”
“Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.”
“The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.”
“Average real wages in Mexican manufacturing are lower than they were 10 years ago, if you can believe that.”
“We may define therapy as a search for value.”
“I struggle to try not to read the press about my album. It was great when the first stuff came out to hear that people liked it, but at the same time at this point it's almost hard for me to read because as much as I'm uncomfortable with my voice, trust me, I'm more uncomfortable with the things I say. [laughs] To see it on a written page, it's like, "Oh my god. I told that guy I'm a hopeless romantic! What am I doing?"”

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