"Might I," quavered Mary, "might I have a bit of earth?"

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Frances Hodgson Burnett

#Earth Quotes #Might Quotes #Mary Quotes

“Your test had cheese meteor questions?" - Bex to Liz.”
“It is an evil world. The fires of hatred and violence burn fiercely. Evil is powerful, the devil covers a darkened earth with hisblack wings. And soon the end of the world is expected. But mankind does not repent, the church struggles, and the preachers and poets warn and lament in vain.”
“To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.”
“I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.”
“Remember that your thoughts are the primary cause of everything.”
“I dug it, New York City, all-the streets and the snows and the starving and the five-flight walkups and sleeping in rooms with ten people. I dug the trains and the shadows, the way I dug ore mines and coal mines. I just jumped right to the bottom of New York.”
“If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.”

Source : "Caitlin Flanagan and Joan Didion: Writers and Mothers". Interview with Nancy Doyle Palmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.
“Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it.”

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