Nancy Pearl Quotes
Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.
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Quakers are terrific.
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It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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The only thing I expect out of lawyers is that they be back in their coffins by sunup.
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It's a rare memoir that can tell a story that seems brand new, but Nina Here Nor There does it. This one-of-a-kind narrator undertakes a quest that is unmistakably timely. But in its yearning for awareness and connection, this book feels timeless.
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As a writer I'm not an explainer, really. I'm a narrator. I mistrust explanation.
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Once I got interested in organized crime, and, specifically, Jewish organized crime, I got very interested in it. I have learned that, like my narrator Hannah, I'm a crime writer in my own peculiar way. Crime with a capital "C" is the subject that I'm stuck with - even Sway is about "crime" in a certain way. The nice thing about crime is that it enables you to deal with some big questioO
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Give Villanova credit, they're a terrific team. They (made) some big-time plays.
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My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally.
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The only exercise I take is walking behind the coffins of friends who took exercise.
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A shortage of coffins was one thing, but then London began running out of graves.
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The potential for these way stations is just terrific.
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His defense and rebounding have been terrific. I've never seen him rebound the way he has during this stretch.
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My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.
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I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans.
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I like the personality of the Belgians. They're deeply eccentric, which is something that comes across in their design - terrific.
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There were no allegations, insinuations, indications of concern
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There's poetry in being the band that can sell out Wembley but also makes a record in a garage. I don't like doing what people expect me to do.
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A lot of people seem nice when you first meet them. Then later you find out that they are evil villains who plan to take over the world.
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We all live in a world where we can go to a funeral in the morning and go to a wedding in the evening and we survive it. It's the way the world is built, especially when you look at the various people surrounding the Mediterranean way of life.
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I've never written a song that's hopeless. I'm not a hopeless person. I'm crazily optimistic. I crazily see the good in people. I crazily see the way out of a terrible situation. I crazily try to be the diplomat. If there are two warring factions in my life, I want them to agree to disagree at the very least.
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Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.
