"In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill."

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Source : Eileen Favorite (2009). “The Heroines: A Novel”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

Eileen Favorite

#Running Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Mills Quotes

“If you take a look at the most fantastic schemes that are considered impossible: teleportation, warp drive, parallel universes, other dimensions, artificial intelligence, ray guns, you realize that they can be possible if we advance technology a little bit.”
“I wish there were shortcuts to wisdom and self-knowledge: cuter abysses or three-day spa wilderness experiences. Sadly, it doesn't work that way. I so resent this.”
“My own feelings about the direction in which jazz should go are that there should be much less stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content, on what might be termed humanity in music and the freedom to say all that you want.”
“The foundations of our Empire are now based more firmly than ever! The birth of a Crown Prince shows that the prosperity of the Imperial Household is increasing many times.”

Source : "Sun's Son's Son". "TIME" Magazine, January 1, 1934.
“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.”

Source : 'To Althea, From Prison'
“A metaphor cannot be paraphrased”
“I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.”
“I decided I'd never do a series again, but I was offered a pilot for a series through Eddy Murphy Productions, and that was the gig that got me Parker Lewis.”

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