"Clever is as clever does."

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Source : Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi (2013). “Lucinda's Secret”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

Tony DiTerlizzi

#Clever Quotes #Doe Quotes

“I work, and then I leave the office, and I'm with my kids and just sort of enjoy them on a visceral level, and I don't feel like I'm exorcising my own deep ideas about parenthood and about how my life will come into play in my work.”
“Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.”
“We wanted to define her, to wrap her up as we did each other, but we could not seem to get past "weird" and "strange" and "goofy." Her ways knocked us off balance.”
“Go, mark the matchless working of the power That shuts within the seed the future flower; Bids these in elegance of form excel. In color these, and those delight the smell; Sends nature forth, the daughter of the skies, To dance on earth, and charm all human eyes.”
“Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world.”
“Do not consider yourself deprived because your dreams were not fulfilled; the truly deprived have never dreamed.”

Source : Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)
“A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress upon the mind a more vivid notion of powerful and correct description and narration than will ten dry chapters of a bulky textbook.”
“Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.”

Source : GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS (1868). “PRUE AND I”, p.126

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