"Truly Alice, books are wonderful things; to sit alone in a room and laugh and cry, because you are reading, and still be safe when you close the book; and having finished it, discover you are changed, yet unchanged! To be able to visit the City of Invention at will, depart at will â€“ that is all, really, education is about, should be about."

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Source : Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.54, Hachette UK

Fay Weldon

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“Everytime i have turned the page he re-enters my life as awkward as postscript”
“Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.”
“My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom,”
“I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.”
“Maidens! why should you worry in choosing whom you shall marry? Choose whom you may, you will find you have got somebody else.”

Source : John Hay (1916). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Hay: Including Many Poems Now First Collected”
“In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.”
“There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven't recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can't decipher. what we can't understand we call nonsense. What we can't read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables.”
“Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age weâ€™re living in All cultures have had means and techniques of expressing their immediate aims â€“ the Chinese, the Renaissance, all cultures. The thing that interests me is that today painters do not have to go to a subject matter outside of themselves. Most modern painters work from a different source, they work from within.”

Source : Interview with William Wright, 1950.

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