"I've had two proposals since I've been a widow. I am a wonderful catch, you know. I have a lot of money."

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Source : "Ruth Rendell: In quotes". www.theguardian.com. May 02, 2015.

Ruth Rendell

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“Only now is the child finally divested of all that he has been. His origins are become remote as is his destiny and not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay.”
“In detachment lies the wisdom of uncertainty...in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the universe.”
“Eighty percent of my pieces gravitate towards an A, as a tonal thing, not at the beginning, but somewhere in it.”

Source : "The Gospel According To John Corigliano". Interview with Frank J. Oteri, www.newmusicbox.org. February 1, 2005.
“Underneath that facade, I'm a terrified little sissy, just like everybody else. But I never let it show.”

Source : Source: www.progressive.org
“Peter invented, with Wendy's help, a new game that fascinated him enormously, until he suddenly had no more interest in it, which, as you have been told, was what always happened with his games. It consisted in pretending not to have adventures...”
“I advise you to stop sharing your dreams with people who try to hold you back, even if they're your parents. Because, if you're the kind of person who senses there's something out there for you beyond whatever it is you're expected to do - if you want to be EXTRA-ordinary- you will not get there by hanging around a bunch of people who tell you you're not extraordinary. Instead, you will probably become as ordinary as they expect you to be.”
“The public good is promoted best by people pursuing their own private interests. This bothers some people because they're more concerned with motives than with results.”
“Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.”

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