"I have a superstition that if I talk about plot, it's like letting sand out of a hole in the bottom of a bag."

--

Shirley Hazzard

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“in skies of deepening blue the moon, heaven's queen was now afloat”
“I have seen something of the project of M. de St. Pierre, for maintaining a perpetual peace in Europe. I am reminded of a device in a cemetery, with the words: Pax perpetua ; for the dead do not fight any longer: but the living are of another humor; and the most powerful do not respect tribunals at all.”
“Morale is faith in the man at the top.”
“There are different ways to shop for different people.”
“You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.”
“I'm always, all the time, eating chocolate. I eat pretty healthy, but then I go all out when it has to do with chocolate.”
“Every day is great for me. I dislike rose-coloured glasses.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. May 20, 2011.
“We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them”

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