"Every sky with its varied tints and every feather of each bird were coloured by hand; and when it is considered that nearly two hundred and eighty thousand illustrations in the present work have been so treated, it will most likely cause some astonishment to those who give the subject a thought."

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Source : John Gould (1873). “An Introduction to the Birds of Great Britain”, p.4

John Gould

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“I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.”

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“I like to take afternoon naps in the nude.”
“When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something?”

Source : Lucy McCormick Calkins, Lucy Calkins (1991). “Living Between the Lines”, Heinemann Educational Books
“Our brains are great at knowing what to forget. We actually have to teach computers to do the same.”

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“It is the absence of facts that frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
“[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.”

Source : Elizabeth Goudge (1944). “Green Dolphin Street”
“But it is never over; nothing ends until we want it to. Look, in shattered midnights, On black ice under silver trees, We are still dancing, dancing.”

Source : Gwendolyn MacEwen, Rosemary Sullivan (1999). “Gwendolyn MacEwen”, p.97, Exile Editions, Ltd.
“I don't keep from despairing. I let myself despair. I just don't linger there for too long. There's too much to laugh about, two knuckleheads I have to feed, and a lot of really excellent television to watch. I think the mess we're in deserves the full range of human feeling, from despair to its opposite, which I would say is not hope, happiness, or peace, but freedom.”

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