"Writing stories is my way of scratching that itch: my escape from the claustrophobia of individuality. It lets me, at least for a while, live more than one life, walk more than one path. Reading, of course, can do the same."

-- Emma Donoghue

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Individuality Quotes

“A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.”

Source : "My vote". www.theguardian.com. April 10, 2010.
“Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To raise the question whether we are here concerned already with a human being or not is merely to confuse the issue. The simple fact is that God certainly intended to create a human being and that this nascent human being has been deliberately deprived of his life. And that is nothing but murder.”

Source : Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “Ethics”, p.174, Simon and Schuster
“The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.”

Source : Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.100, Broadview Press
“What an age do we live in, when 'tis a miracle if in ten couples that are married, two of them live so as not to publish to the world that they cannot agree.”

Source : Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.184, Cambridge University Press
“I just think the Kardashians are just so cheap!”
“Everything eaten is killed. Every meal is a sacrifice.”
“... if the society toward which we are developing is not to be a nightmare of exhaustion, we must use the interlude of the present era to develop a new technology which is based on a circular flow of materials such that the only sources of man's provisions will be his own waste products.”

Source : "Economics As a Science". Book by Kenneth E. Boulding, 1970.
“As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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