"I liked her better for showing a little spirit."

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Joanne Harris

#Littles Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Wisdom consists in knowing what not to want as well as what to want.”
“Maybe I lacked coping skills. Maybe I was weak. I cared for people for no better reason than they seemed to care for me, acknowledge me. It didnâ€™t seem so dangerous at the time.”

Source : Mark Slouka (2014). “Brewster: A Novel”, p.61, W. W. Norton & Company
“The schedule of doing a live TV show every week is very difficult.”
“Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.”
“The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!”
“Great ideas are fish in a stream. Your pen/pencil is a spear. If you don't spear them, they'll swim on by. Be ready.”
“I still maintain that an ordinary human being has the right to be horrified by a mangled body seen on an afternoon walk.”

Source : Timothy Findley (1983). “The wars”, Laurel
“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”

Source : Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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