"Lord Derfel, you do insult a man so very easily. What was it to be? My head in a pit dunged by slaves? What a paltry imagination you do have. Mine, I fear, sometimes seems excessive, even to me."
Bernard Cornwell
"The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity."
Bal Gangadhar Tilak
"There's always more to the story, Catriona,' She replied. 'That's the wonderful thing about stories."
Heather Vogel Frederick
"The Tanzanian told her that all fiction was therapy, some sort of therapy, no matter what anybody said."
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
"I look at each episode in two ways - from a design standpoint and from an entertainment standpoint - this is TV, after all. We usually succeed on at least one of the levels."
Douglas Wilson
"Oyin Da’s mind is as elegant as a French horn, thoughts moving in whorls and evoking fresh mint leaves."
Tade Thompson
"Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
George Orwell
"What sort of world might it have been if Eve had refused the Serpents offer and had said to him instead, 'Let me not be like God. Let me be what I was made to be -- let me be a woman?"
Elisabeth Elliot
"I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time."
Constance Dejong
"A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself."
Criss Jami
"And if you can find any way out of our culture, then that's a trap too. Just wanting to get out of the trap reinforces the trap."
Chuck Palahniuk
"When they explore opportunity cost of black blood I hear ancient corridors survived on the neck of ancient souls Satellite empires, the oversight dark forces."
Omondi Ochuka
"When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something."
Dmitri Shostakovich
"The problems presented by difficult individuals contribute to your growth and evolution—another reason for filling yourself with gratitude, appreciation, and love!"
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