"My wife had an uncle who could never walk down the nave of an abbey without wondering whether it would take spin."

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Source : In The Twentieth Century Revisited, BBC T V programme, 1982.

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“Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.”
“When I was a small boy in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing. I told him I wanted to be a real Major League baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish.”
“The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.”

Source : Kaza Kingsley (2010). “The Three Furies”, p.181, Simon and Schuster
“I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.”
“As far as her mom was concerned, tea fixed everything. Have a cold? Have some tea. Broken bones? There's a tea for that too. Somewhere in her mother's pantry, Laurel suspected, was a box of tea that said, 'In case of Armageddon, steep three to five minutes'.”

Source : "Illusions". Book by Aprilynne Pike, 2011.
“I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities.”
“There is nothing so depressing as a constant contemplation of one's self, and the greatest moral cowardice in the world's opinion comes from consulting one's own personal convenience.”
“My favorite thing in the whole is getting to work with the actors.”

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