"I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels."

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Matthew Tobin Anderson

#Fiction Quotes #Fantasy Quotes #Science Fiction Quotes

“That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work.”

Source : Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.24, U of Nebraska Press
“Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way.”

Source : "Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections" by George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax, 1750.
“Richie Faulkner is very respectful to the songs that he plays from when [founding member] K.K. [Downing] was in the band. He plays them incredibly. And he's got his own nuances and his own techniques that he puts in - as he should.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“What the studio didn't understand is that surfing is about a billion times more dangerous than skydiving. They would not allow the boys to skydive, but they allowed us to surf in pipeline in Hawaii. Nine-hundred foot waves. So we're out there in the middle where the greatest surfers in the world surf. They have these long lenses on from the beach, so they can't see anything. They are just shooting our faces in the Point Break.”
“John Guidetti is a typical English striker. Even though he is Swedish”
“The colonial regime makes sure, often with the help of surrogates, that radical leaders and those honest principled intellectuals and activists who refuse to compromise their principles of independence are eliminated, so that the postcolonial regime (and especially its resources) remains accessible. The result has been a disaster for the (post)colonial world.”
“For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely on what reason has discovered to it.”
“Poor people who had escaped from poverty as I had, feared it, hated it and fled from it all their lives. Those born rich could afford to be touched by it.”

Source : Anzia Yezierska (1950). “Red ribbon on a white horse”

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