"We all act as hinges-fortuitous links between other people."

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Source : Penelope Lively (2007). “Moon Tiger”, p.143, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Penelope Lively

#Work Quotes #People Quotes #Links Quotes

“I'm more of a whiz on the guitar and drums. I hear certain sounds in my head, and I find it easy to translate them into synth sounds, but I'm not really technically-minded.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“He smiled at her. And it hit her like a mallet to the temple, the realization that she was in love with him. Stupidly, dreadfully in love with him.Overnight, she'd become a fool.”
“Striving to better, oft we mar whatâ€™s well.”
“Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?”

Source : Emily Eden (1861). “The Semi-attached Couple”, p.120
“Users who continually find value in a product are more likely to tell their friends about it.”
“I came up and was a first-round draft pick and there was a lot of hype and a lot of expectation, and I enjoyed that. Have I also seen the other side of that? Absolutely.”
“We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.”
“It's difficult sometimes when you have somebody who is of a different culture trying to make light of something that is maybe not quite something that they understand.”

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