"I sometimes think it's a mistake to have been happy when one was a child. One should always want to go on, not back."

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Source : Mary Stewart (2011). “Stormy Petrel”, p.56, Hachette UK

Mary Stewart

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“I do not think novels are necessarily more worthwhile than games. A novel can be a trivial waste of time, and a game can teach. Whatever the genre, I think a successful narrative allows us to participate, to try on new roles and points of view. At their best, novels and games serve as vehicles for discovery.”

Source : Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
“Know your load. That's rule numero uno in this business, which is why I make them count the penguins out in front of me one at a time. I'm not going to be the schmuck who shows up in Orlando twobirds short of a dinner party....I know I'm pulling out of Houston with exactly forty-two Gentoo penguins, seventeen Jamaican land iguanas, four tuataras from New Zealand, and a pair of rare, civet-like mammals called linsangs. No more, no less.”
“Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.”
“It takes a very very strong individual not to be corrupt in any of those things as time moves on. Myself and other people who went that road and experienced that world, some got a second birth of life and some is in the dirt.”
“Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.”
“The war will continue a long time. Chiang Kai-shek may attempt to continue hostilities throughout his ifetime and as long as Chiang continues, Japan must continue.”

Source : "Time". Book by Briton Hadden, p. 29, 1923.
“I think the whole, like, cultural diversity and the arty side of London is really, really great. And how it's so historic as well.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.”

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