"You build a character, a shell, and if you build it right, something comes to live inside it."

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Source : Elizabeth Hand (2010). “Illyria”, p.52, Penguin

Elizabeth Hand

#Character Quotes #Shells Quotes

“Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.”
“I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.”
“I liked the idea of being an actress, but thought better of it.”
“Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesnâ€™t mean it cannot be managed.”

Source : Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.31, Crown Business
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.”
“Lord, to whom should we go? Thy words are the words of eternal life.”
“You bring up identity politics and I think that this is really causing a divide in the American left where we're rallying too much around identities. We should celebrate our heritage, we should organize by identity, but we shouldn't advocate and push for certain identities. We shouldn't talk about women suffrage, or plight of Muslims, or refugees; we should talk about our common American values.”
“I doubt if there is a single really excellent art school now available in New York.”

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