"Some children were lucky enough to have their Potter novels banned by witch-hunting school boards and micromanaging ministers. Is there any greater job than a book you're not allowed to read, a book you could go to hell for reading?"

Ann Patchett
Kommentare 0
Noch keine Kommentare

Sei der Erste, der seine Gedanken teilt!

Bitte logge dich ein, um mitzudiskutieren.

Das könnte dir auch gefallen

"Not everything is about you,' Clary said furiously.'Possibly,' Jace said, 'but you do have to admit that the majority of things are."
Cassandra Clare
"I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s."
Elizabeth McGovern
"The best contraceptive for old people is nudity."
Phyllis Diller
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
Anonymous
"Premature independence is the daughter of conceit."
Idries Shah
"Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth."
John Quincy Adams
"The prince of darkness is a gentleman!"
William Shakespeare
"Or rather, he was sad because that morning he'd understood that he'd understood nothing, because while he still understood nothing he wasn't sad at all, but now that he'd understood that he'd understood nothing he felt sad, if you follow."
François Lelord
"Where do the words gowhen we have said them?"
Margaret Atwood
"Look for a long time at what pleases you, and longer still at what pains you..."
Colette
"I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place."
Donald Davis
"It's witchcraft with all the crusts cut off, and real witchcraft is ALL crusts."
Anonymous
"What is knowledge but a lucid enunciation of ignorance of yesterday. If there is no darkness to dispel, there can be no light."
Anonymous
"A poet, any real poet, is simply an alchemist who transmutes his cynicism regarding human beings into an optimism regarding the moon, the stars, the heavens, and the flowers, to say nothing of the spring, love, and dogs."
George Jean Nathan
"If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight."
William Keepin