"It is the fashion to talk of our changing climate and bewail the hot summers and hard winters of tradition, but how seldom we pause to marvel at the remarkable constancy of the weather from year to year."

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Source : Flora Thompson (2008). “The Peverel papers: nature notes written in Liphoo, Hampshire, 1921-1927”

Flora Thompson

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“That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine.”
“New truth is old heresy.”
“Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.”
“In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms.”
“You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic.”

Source : Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. March 31, 2007.
“[St. Ives] is a wonderful place to live. It's a small fishing town and one can live there inexpensively. There's a sympathetic population of other artists, where you can exchange ideas, and it's quite rich in artistic thought.”
“The Jews caused us a great injustice, the greatest injustice. They have expelled our people, stolen our land, shed our brothers' blood, and are still shedding blood, and there should be no contact between them and us....we will not agree to meet with them until our problem with the Zionist entity and those Westerners and Christians who support them, is solved.”

Source : "Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi against Including Jews in Dialogue between Religions". MEMRI TV, May 2004.
“Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.”

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