Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
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I am now writing a book called 'Far Enough,' very loosely based on my childhood. This is difficult because it forces me to remember people I loved who are gone.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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My whole life has been a huge mistake, but what a divine mistake - doing something that I adore.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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Time is change; we measure its passing by how much things alter.
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When I'm depressed, I definitely comfort eat, but I also eat when I'm happy. The only time I don't eat is if I am terribly nervous.
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For me the purest and truest art in the world is science fiction.
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You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the system.
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We owe it to our children to equip them with all the capabilities they'll need to thrive in the limitless world beyond the classrooms.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
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I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?
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I do not usually revise much, though I often cut, particularly the end or toward the end of a poem.
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The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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My style is bad white-boy dancing. I can do swing a little bit, but nothing beyond that. My solo dancing is sad. I use my arms, badly.
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Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.
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The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.
