"Every time I do what you say I tumble a bit farther down this well of darkness, an' this here is a drop too deep an' too dark for me. I have to stop falling while I can still see a bit of the sky."

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Frances Hardinge

#Fall Quotes #Dark Quotes #Sky Quotes

“My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.”
“Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.”
“I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite easy. But actual, genuine warmth? I don't think you can fake it.”
“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.”
“Because your own strength is unequal to a task, do not assume it is beyond the powers of man.”
“An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.”
“You have to break your fingers to learn how to play guitar.”
“Where do the words go when we have said them?”

Source : Margaret Atwood (1987). “Selected Poems: 1965-1975”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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