"There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it."

-- Marcus Sedgwick

#Life Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Two Quotes

“While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.”
“Can a magician kill a man by magic?â€ Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. â€œI suppose a magician might,â€ he admitted, â€œbut a gentleman never would.”

Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.389, Bloomsbury Publishing
“The benefit of writing a collection - as opposed to a novel - is that I'm able to have some version of the war in each story without having to comment on its all-encompassing nature. Turn the page and here are new characters and new situations, but the war remains... Isn't that how life has been for us for over a decade?”
“Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.”
“I rarely return to characters. My characters, at least most of them, are much more a part of that superorganism that is the story than separate and independent creatures.”
“In college, I stopped doing pre-med and went into theater, and then I moved to San Francisco and lived there for five years.”
“Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel.”
“I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.”

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