"If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?"

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Source : C. J. Sansom (2004). “Dissolution: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery”, p.92, Penguin

C.J. Sansom

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“Freedom, liberty, individual rights, that idea of dealing with other people in a matter that is not initiating force against them, is critical to me.”
“Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.”
“It is the duty of all magicians to give entertainment,”
“Tunisia is always ready to turn the page.”

Source : "TUNISIA: The Accused". content.time.com. February 24, 1958.
“The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.”

Source : "The 'Ready for Her Close-Up" Transcript" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. May 26, 2015.
“Radiation doesn't recognize borders. A meltdown in Japan or India, say, is a danger to the whole world. Wind circulates the radiation everywhere. Water quality is affected. We all eat the same fish. We use products from all over the world - if something is contaminated, it will cause harm.”
“I have a funny story to tell about English and how I came to fall in love with the language. I was desperate to fit in and spoke English all the time. Trouble was, in my household it was a no-no to speak English because somehow it is disrespectful to call parents and grandparents "you" - impersonal pronouns are offensive in Vietnamese.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.”

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