"In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches of France and the fields of England. Her richly complex characters walk right off the page and into our imaginations, as we fight with them, farm with them, cook with them. I devoured this dazzling novel."

-- Margot Livesey

#Lying Quotes #War Quotes #Character Quotes

“His finest hour lasted a minute and a half.”
“I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.”
“It is always possible to argue against an interpretation, to confront interpretations, to arbitrate between them and to seek for an agreement, even if this agreement remains beyond our reach.”

Source : Paul Ricoeur (2016). “Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences”, p.175, Cambridge University Press
“Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.”
“We cannot bank our hopes on possibilities. We must put our trust in ourselves, in our capabilities and efforts and strength and preparations not only for our success but even to avoid our own defeat.”

Source : Presidential address to the AFPFL Supreme Council Session, August, 1946.
“A true spiritual seeker should exercise control all the time, throughout the day and night.”
“Until you take charge of your own life, things don't happen.”

Source : Suzanne Braun Levine (2011). “The Woman's Guide to Second Adulthood: Inventing the Rest of Our Lives”, p.134, A&C Black
“Some of the most important conversations I've ever had occurred at my family's dinner table.”

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