"I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down."

-- Tana French

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“It is no wonder lesbians love women.”
“I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be dead. I think the spirit will move to some other state.”
“There is no more final end than death”
“Man is different from animals in that he speculates, a high-risk activity.”

Source : Edward Hoagland (1999). “Tigers & Ice: Reflections on Nature and Life”, p.41, Rowman & Littlefield
“I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be. So I painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers... only foxy grandpas who played baseball with the kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the backyard.”
“If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.”
“I am surrounded by my family, my beloved grandchildren, and my pack of dogs.”
“I am your moon and your moonlight too I am your flower garden and your water too I have come all this way, eager for you Without shoes or shawl I want you to laugh To kill all your worries To love you To nourish you.”

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