"if you think you know, you don't ask questions, or if you ask, you don't listen to the answers. Everyone, everything, each thing, is different, so that it isn't safe to know. You - you have to grope."

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Source : Rumer Godden (1963). “The Battle of the Villa Fiorita. The Greengage Summer. An Episode of Sparrows”

Rumer Godden

#Thinking Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Answers Quotes

“Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice.”
“Whatever the device you use for getting your information out, it should be the same information.”
“I used to sell ***** to my son's mom's new husband. And then I would take that money and give it to her as child support.”
“I do what many dream of, all their lives”
“The love is so powerful that both people have to surrender. I think that's the funny thing about dating somebody for the first time, it's kind of a question of who wears the pants, or who's gonna text you first, how much am I supposed to put myself out there, and it makes you feel a little bit crazy. But at the end of the day, it's not about that. And if it's the right person you don't have to worry about that.”
“Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.”
“Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?”
“It's always a better choice to write a new book than it is to keep pounding your head against the submissions wall with a book that's just not happening. The next book you write could be the book, the one that isn't a fight to get representation for at all.”

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