‘Lisa, he remembered now, had always been afraid of happiness, had always envisaged jealous gods waiting to snatch it away.’
Little Boy Lost- Marghanita Laski
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‘You kiss a lot of frogs as a science fiction fan.’
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‘The best way to preserve this mood is not to think more than a couple of days ahead.’
From Heaven Lake – Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet – Vikram Seth
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As a writer, the stuff that doesn’t matter, matters too.’
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‘He was nothing at all when people tried to tell him what he was.’
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‘We lived as usual by ignoring. Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance. You have to work at it.’
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‘After seeing one magpie, is there a time limit before you see the next one? If I see one at nine in the morning and the next one at five in the afternoon, is that two sorrows or one joy?’
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‘The thing is – fear can’t hurt you any more than a dream.’
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‘Life is about losing. I don’t believe that as human beings we can do anything other than struggle to face the loss with grace.’
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‘I’ll not be vain or conceited anymore. People will think much less of me but that can’t be helped.’ But the funny thing was that everyone thought much more of Clickety Clack when he became humble and modest. They liked him very much, and often had happy evenings with him in his little toadstool cottage.’
Clickety Clack from Round The Clock Stories – Enid Blyton
