"I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid."

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Source : Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2008.

Peter Robinson

#Kids Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“If you want to be free, or you want to preserve freedom for people, you both need to have laws that make it so people have freedom of speech and all the freedoms that they need. You also need to have an open governance system where people can vote and people have representation.”
“This world is full of beauty, as other worlds above, and if we did our duty, it might be as full of love.”

Source : Gerald Massey (1851). “Voices of Freedom and Lyrics of Love”, p.2
“Touring is definitely work. You're spending a lot of time in the car and around the same people and it's not the easiest thing in the world, but it's better than working a 9-to-5 job or something.”
“The repose necessary to all beauty is repose, not of inanition, nor of luxury, nor of irresolution, but the repose of magnificent energy and being; in action, the calmness of trust and determination; in rest, the consciousness of duty accomplished and of victory won; and this repose and this felicity can take place as well in the midst of trial and tempest, as beside the waters of comfort.”
“Confuse was the nurses' word for abuse.”
“True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.”
“A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being.”
“So there I was, wondering what sort of things women would look for in a video game. I sat in cafÃƒÂ©s and listened to what they were talking about: mostly it was fashion and boyfriends. Neither of those was really the stuff of a good video game. Then they started talking about food - about cakes and sweets and fruit - and it hit me: that food and eating would be the thing to concentrate on to get the girls interested.”

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