"I will defend the importance of bedtime stories to my last gasp."

-- J. K. Rowling

#Reading Quotes #Stories Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.”
“It's a treat being a runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to make you bad-tempered or tell you what to do.”

Source : Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.8, Open Road Media
“Invention is arrived at by intelligent stumbling.”

Source : "Spotlight: Amar Bose, the guru of sound design" by Roxana Popescu, www.nytimes.com. May 11, 2007.
“Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.”
“Blessings are not known till they be lost.”
“Happy is already a state, so if you create something that's happy... OK, wonderful... but when you're in a place of distress or trauma, there are so many more directions that can go in to me. Something that's happy can only truly go in one direction, whereas with something like distress, anger, trauma, there are so many more interesting possibilities that those emotions can create.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I'm not a fighter, but in my mind I'm fighting every day. 'What's new? What am I doing?' I'm fighting myself. My soul is samurai. My roots aren't samurai, but my soul is.”
“..the United States is subject to the scrutiny of a candid world ... what the United States does, for good or for ill, continues to be watched by the international community, in particular by organizations concerned with the advancement of the rule of law and respect for human dignity.”

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