"Ask her if she still keeps all her kings in the back row."

-- J. D. Salinger

#Kings Quotes #Stills Quotes

“The happiest girls always have the prettiest nails.”
“Sometimes you have to win ugly.”
“Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.”
“Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.”
“We attracted a lot of market timers and asset allocators. I don't need those ... amateurs in my fund.”
“Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive”

Source : "Peter James: My Media". The Guardian interview, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2010.
“... it's hard to be politically conscious and upwardly mobile at the same time.”
“One of the most persistent fallacies about the Christian Church is that it kept learning alive during the Dark and Middle Ages. What the Church did was to keep learning alive in the monasteries, while preventing the spread of knowledge outside them... Even as late as the beginning of the nineteenth century, however, nine-tenths of Christian Europe was illiterate.”

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