"Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind."

-- Katharine Weber

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“Peter Hart, who's a pollster that's - who's done many focus groups about Hillary Clinton, talks about a glass curtain. She talks about the glass ceiling. He says voters feel there's a glass curtain between themselves and Hillary Clinton. They can't relate to her. They feel they don't really understand her, and that's made it easier for her opponents, of which there have been many over many years, to define her the way they want to.”
“In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.”
“Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.”
“I think artists should define themselves. They should speak about their work and how it relates to society and what's going on in the world.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.”
“Achieving climate security must be the core of foreign policy. All of us have to pick up the pace.”
“I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.”
“The mark of a great man is one who knows when to set aside the important things in order to accomplish the vital ones.”

Source : Brandon Sanderson (2011). “The Alloy of Law: A Mistborn Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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