"The weaker the country, the stronger the smile."

-- Howard E. Koch

#Country Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.”
“I don't particularly care about having [my characters] talk realistically, that doesn't mean very much to me. Actually, a lot of people speak more articulately than some critics think, but before the 20th century it really didn't occur to many writers that their language had to be the language of everyday speech. When Wordsworth first considered that in poetry, it was considered very much of a shocker. And although I'm delighted to have things in ordinary speech, it's not what I'm trying to perform myself at all: I want my characters to get their ideas across, and I want them to be articulate.”
“We wont develop until we accept that reading is a vital necessity.”

Source : Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Sugar Street: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.89, Anchor
“I like to allow young readers to keep writing in their heads after they've finished reading. Not to leave the ending too open, but enough so they can imagine: What does this mean? My young adult books usually end in a far more obscure way.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.”

Source : Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”
“I've always moved by my heart. I've moved by the spirit of what I feel was right for me next. I always pray and ask God: 'What's the next thing? What am I supposed to do next?”
“Is it not true that for every person the course of life is along the line of least resistance, and that in this the movement of humanity is like the movement of material bodies?”

Source : John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub
“My good lady,â€™ interrupted Clent, â€˜are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of his nativity?â€™ Seconds passed. A beetle flew into Mistress Leapâ€™s hair while she stared at Clent, then it struggled free and flew off again. â€˜Did you lie about when he was born?â€™ translated Mosca.”

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