"Time has not stood still. It has washed over me, washed me away, as if I'm nothing more than a woman of sand, left by a careless child too near the water."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.”
“I remember manners, that's when people are scared to make other persons mad.”
“By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analyzing the observations that I had made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics. Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.”
“No use going to class unless you go to the library.”
“Children, together with women, constitute 90 percent of all refugee populations on the planet as well as the vast majority of those living in absolute poverty: the 'feminization of poverty' means that children are poor, too, since most parenting is done by mothers.”
“And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.”

Source : Peter Ackroyd (1996). “First Light”, p.50, Grove Press
“I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.”

Source : Speech on April 28, 1859. The Times, p. 6, April 29, 1859.
“I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.”

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