"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."

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Beverly Cleary

#Needs Quotes #Bedtime Quotes

“I dont want to be owned by anyone.”
“For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruction.”

Source : Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”
“Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.”
“What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.24, Macmillan
“To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat makes you appreciate the experience of winning. That's what makes a champion.”
“Why should I care? I have all the money in the world.”
“In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.”
“Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes only? Could anything be more un-American than the Second Commandment's warning that "I Yahweh, thy God, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation."? Not even the Common Law would have hung a man because his grandfather had stolen a horse!”

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