"A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open."

-- E. B. White

#Escaping Quotes #Self Quotes #Style Quotes

“In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.”

Source : Interview with Lucy Ward, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2005.
“What the heart has once owned and had, it shall never lose.”
“Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy.”
“Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence. Yet why these glorious sunsets, I ask myself, if nature does not speak to us with tongues of fire.”
“No one really can have any idea if it's luck or happenstance or timing or fate or the universe or just smart choices that grant you a good life, a happy one. All we can do is decide to own our choices no matter what, to honor them and ourselves as best we can. That whatever is within our control (and there is plenty that is not) is ours. Mine. Responsibility. Conviction.”
“Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.”
“The investment business has taught me â€“ increasingly as the years have passed â€“ that people, especially investors (and, I believe, Americans), prefer good news and wishful thinking to bad news; and that there are always vested interests to offer facile, optimistic alternatives to the bad news.”
“The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.”

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