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Lauren Willig

"Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M.M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly historyâ€™s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities."

-- Lauren Willig

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“Poetry is related to philosophy as experience is related to empirical science. Experience makes us acquainted with the phenomenon in the particular and by means of examples, science embraces the whole of phenomena by means of general conceptions. So poetry seeks to make us acquainted with the Platonic Ideas through the particular and by means of examples. Philosophy aims at teaching, as a whole and in general, the inner nature of things which expresses itself in these. One sees even here that poetry bears more the character of youth, philosophy that of old age.”
“When you hire somebody, you shouldn't have to tell them [a lot of what] to do; you hire them because you like their work and all you've got to do is tweak them a little bit.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.
“If this was love, love had been overrated.”
“People in power have to be careful about what comes out of their mouth. They have to find exactly the right word that can't be attacked.”
“Viscosity and velocity are opposites, yet they can look the same. Viscosity causes the stillness of disinclination, velocity causes the stillness of fascination. An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.”

Source : Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.77, Vintage
“When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.”
“If families give Our Lady fifteen minutes a day by reciting the Rosary, I assure them that their homes will become, by God's grace, peaceful places.”
“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”

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