"I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book."

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Anne Rice

#Book Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Madness Quotes

“Denzel Washington's career is an enormous luxury. Compare him to Wesley Snipes.”
“I think throughout my life I've had an appreciation for how all of these things have to come together in order to realize and then sustain change.”
“I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.”

Source : "Costa Rica elects first woman president". www.cnn.com. February 8, 2010.
“not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.”
“After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.”
“To say that humans are composed of machines is not to say that we are merely machines. Humans are dignified machines. We are (so far) the most extropic, most complex product of billions of years of evolution.”
“Holding this soft, small living creature in my lap this way, though, and seeing how it slept with complete trust in me, I felt a warm rush in my chest. I put my hand on the cat's chest and felt his heart beating. The pulse was faint and fast, but his heart, like mine, was ticking off the time allotted to his small body with all the restless earnestness of my own.”
“[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.”

Source : Marion Zimmer Bradley (2001). “The Mists of Avalon”, p.194, Ballantine Books

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