"A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey thou' 'Apes with foreheads villainous low' 'Pied ninny' 'Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses"

-- Gary D. Schmidt

#Mother Quotes #Blow Quotes #Light Quotes

“Laugh, I Nearly Died," Andrew answers. "You've probably never heard that one before.”
“Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.”
“Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared.”

Source : Georgie Anne Geyer (1970). “The New Latins: Fateful Change in South and Central America”
“The stories I love the most are where the author has a lot of empathy for everyone. The author loves their characters and takes their situations really seriously, and you feel like you're just dropped into a different world.”
“Big cities like New York are thriving, economically, culturally, in terms of real estate values, and by a slew of other measures. Yet, at the same time, much of the country has been utterly hollowed out. In California, where I live, affluent coastal cities such as San Francisco and the Silicon Valley hubs have lower than national average unemployment, higher wages, higher tax bases. Meanwhile, there are inland counties in California where there's still nearly 20 percent unemployment.”
“Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
“where are we to look for the consumption required but among the unproductive labourers of Adam Smith?...”
“Too often, we spend our days thinking about what we don't have rather than what we do have. Be grateful every day.”

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