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“I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.”
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“As I look back on what I have written, I can see that the very persons who have taken away my time are those who have given me something to say.”
Source : Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile
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“The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed.”
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“I was...attacked for being a pasticheur, chided for composing "simple" music, blamed for deserting "modernism," accused of renouncing my "true Russian heritage." People who had never heard of, or cared about, the originals cried "sacrilege": "The classics are ours. Leave the classics alone." To them all my answer was and is the same: You "respect," but I love.”
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“In the small group then is where we shall find the inner meaning of democracy, its very heart and core.”
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“Hostility towards China distorted Australia's international affairs for 20 years until 1972, but reconciliation with China 30 years ago had produced a quarter century of constructive bipartisan relations with our region and the world, unmatched in Australian history.”
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“I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.”
Source : "Somebody to Love?". Book by Grace Slick, 1998.
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“People parted, years passed, they met again- and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.”
Source : Jacqueline Susann (2015). “Valley of the Dolls”, p.388, Tiger LLC
