"November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape."

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F. Sionil JosÃ©

#Christmas Quotes #Country Quotes #Weather Quotes

“Homer excels all the inventors of other arts in this: that he has swallowed up the honor of those who succeeded him.”
“Kat picked up a folder labeled Senior. "What are these? Bank records?" She did a double take, looking at Hale. "Did your dad really pay two million dollars to the campaign to elect Ross Perot?" "I..." Hale said, stumbling for words and thumbing through another file. "Wow. I guess my cousin Charlotte isn't really my cousin." "Don't worry," Kat said. "It looks like there might be a kid in Queens who is.”
“My purpose is to allow people to move closer to actually being creatures of free choice, to genuinely reflect individual creativity and emotion, freeing the body of habitual tensions and wired-patterns of behaviour so that it may respond without inhibition to do what the person wants.”
“Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?”

Source : Jim Nollman (1987). “Animal Dreaming”, Bantam
“People try to read a lot into what 'digital' means. It's just another platform. There are very attractive things that happen if you invest in content - movies, TV production, acquired series, specialty genres, digital distribution of our magazines, sports rights.”
“The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.”
“The trouble with an alarm clock is that what seems sensible when you set it seems absurd when it goes off”

Source : Rex Stout (2010). “Three at Wolfe's Door”, p.177, Crimeline
“I'm not fighting restraints or worrying about pleasing everyone. I've been able to carve my own niche in the marketplace, which is pretty cool. Obviously, I'm just blessed to be able to tour the country and make a living to support my family at the same time.”

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