"...beauty, she had discovered occupied a narrow band. Ugliness, on the hand, had infinite variation."

-- Ian Mcewan

#Hands Quotes #Band Quotes #Variation Quotes

“I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.”
“The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
“Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Flint is a city of a hundred thousand that was having a rough go of it even before its water was poisoned by lead. And when the water crisis finally grabbed national headlines this winter, the Democratic presidential candidates noticed. Hillary Clinton sent senior staff to investigate and asked her supporters to donate to a fund for Flint's kids. Bernie Sanders called on Michigan's Republican governor, Rick Snyder, to resign.”
“Send out judgment and low energy and that is what you'll attract back. Remember, when you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself as someone who needs to judge. The same applies to judgments directed at you.”
“The land wants you here. I want you here," you called. "Don't you care about that at all?”

Source : Lucy Christopher (2012). “Stolen”, p.127, Chicken House
“Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.”
“The American's conviction that he must be able to look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell is the very essence of the free man's way of life.”

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