"As lyke as one pease is to another."

-- John Lyly

“We have focused on the miracle-thing and I think we often overlook the message of Hanukkah. To me, the core of the holiday is the cleaning of the temple.... The accomplishment was in restoring the temple to the purpose for which it was built. Now think of the temple as a symbol. Perhaps it represents my life. The world has tried to use me for its own (perhaps good, but none-the-less extrinsic) purposes. But now I can rededicate myself to my own original purpose.”
“Don't try to be a jack of all investments. Stick to the field you know best.”
“Work is born in us. We take to it kindly or unkindly. The terms may be easy or harsh, but the contract is binding.”
“My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.”
“Sometimes I'm dragging my ***** out to the airport at 8 a.m. on a Saturday and I'm wondering why I'm doing this, but once I walk on stage I know why...because I'm addicted.”
“It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland when we are about to lose it.”
“I'm going to just sit down for a couple of weeks and do nothing but read who-dunnits and Art books. I feel my work is getting a bit dull and mechanical and this proposed resting should work up some enthusiasm in me.”
“The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.”

Source : Rosie Thomas (2016). “Iris and Ruby: A Novel”, p.105, The Overlook Press

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