"Incredible what slender threads you begin to hang your hopes on."

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Source : Elizabeth Wein (2012). “Code Name Verity”, p.212, Egmont UK

Elizabeth Wein

#Incredibles Quotes #Slender Quotes #Thread Quotes

“There is an explicit way to define what explicit is.”
“I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.”

Source : Edgar Rice Burroughs (2014). “Under the Moons of Mars”, p.107, Lulu Press, Inc
“We are enjoying in Africa what I call the democracy dividend. The progress we are seeing, economic development are all part of the dividend of good governance, respect for human rights, rule of law. It has created an enabling environment that allows not only foreigners to come in and invest but for Ghanaians to invest. It has created an atmosphere for our young people to be creative, innovative”
“I do not read SF as much as I used to. It's too much like a busman's holiday.”
“I deplore the loss of arts on BBC One and Two.”
“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
“The locker room talk is always that about who can beat who.”
“During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint." I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.”

Source : "Wood and it be good". Interview with Carole Cadwalladr, www.theguardian.com. August 25, 2007.

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