"Time is the central mystery of our existence. It confines and defines us in many ways."

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Source : Stephen R. Lawhead (2013). “The Bone House: A Bright Empires Novel, Book 2”, p.159, Lion Fiction

Stephen R. Lawhead

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“another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the countryâ€™s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done.”
“I am not sure about facelifts because I wouldn't want to be someone who just looks like she's had a facelift.”
“There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond territory, it is something we all have in common”
“I think a good novel can be a doorstop to despair. I also think the real bravery comes with those who prepared to go through that door and look at the world in all its grime and torment, and still find something of value, no matter how small.”
“I've been a schoolteacher. I always try to get the kids to finish talking before the next one starts”
“I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.”
“We live of novelty in science, so whenever you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that this cannot be done, that it is not interesting and so on.”

Source : Interview with Adam Smith, www.nobelprize.org. April 9, 2008.
“I'm going to pull myself together for a while and think-try to determine what character of a woman I am; for, candidly, I don't know. By all the codes which I am acquainted with, I am a devilishly wicked specimen of the sex. But some way I can't convince myself that I am. I must think about it.”

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