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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I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
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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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I’ve found that the book’s fundamental concept—that capitalism and tech progress are now allowing us to tread more lightly on the earth instead of stripping it bare—is hard for many people to accept.
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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.
