"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."

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Lloyd Alexander

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“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. "This is often considered to be man's first attempt at a calendar" she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. 'My question to you is this - what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman's first attempt at a calendar. It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women's contributions?”
“Love is more than a candle, love can ignite the stars.”
“The core of a scientific lifestyle is to change your mind when faced with information that disagrees with your views, avoiding intellectual inertia, yet many of us praise leaders who stubbornly stick to their views as "strong."”
“Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.”
“In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.”
“Love isn't like money--the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.71, Penguin
“To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.”

Source : Paula McLain (2011). “The Paris Wife: A Novel”, p.286, Ballantine Books
“Overwhelmingly strong proofs of intelligent and benevolent design lie around us... the atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.”

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