"As wonderful as dogs can be, they are famous for missing the point."

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Source : Jean Ferris (2016). “The Tales of Marigold Three Books in One!: Once Upon a Marigold, Twice Upon a Marigold, Thrice Upon a Marigold”, p.138, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jean Ferris

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“As individuals, and as a society, we can choose to take responsibility for ourselves. In doing so we have to accept that sometimes when things go wrong, it is just an accident. In order to change how we lay blame, weâ€™re going to have to change our over-protective habits; children can only learn to take responsibility when given a chance to assess and mitigate risk for themselves.”
“She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply”
“We've been criticizing these superficial aspects, like whether we are all more distracted. We really need to articulate a defense, a critique, that merges awareness of the technology with a more traditional, progressive, left-wing critique of the market.”

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“I like to isolate myself when I work because I end up losing my voice by doing interviews all day.”
“Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.”

Source : Guy de Maupassant (2015). “Guy de Maupassant – The Complete Works: Short Stories, Novels, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs and more: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Maupassant by Tolstoy, Joseph Conrad and Henry James”, p.954, e-artnow
“My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.”
“Whereas, to borrow an illustration from mathematics, life was formerly an equation of, say, 100 unknown quantities, it is now one of 99 only, inasmuch as memory and heredity have been shown to be one and the same thing.”
“Fragrance is an incredibly intimate thing. It can evoke very specific thoughts or memories and is a little different for each person who wears it. I also think it's the most accessible luxury.”

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