Catherine Fisher Quotes
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
W. Edwards Deming
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To some people everything is permitted.
Queen Christina
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There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.
Jane Austen
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Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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What I knew, adored, and fell for was a fantasy. He did not exist in human terms.
Coco J. Ginger
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In the Field Museum of Natural History we could see very simple, primitive, hand-built pottery from Babylonia and ancient Egypt and so forth, Greece. We could see the most sophisticated things that came out of the Orient - Japan, Korea, and China - some few pieces of European porcelain, majolica tin glazed earthenware, and that sort of thing. But they had a marvelous collection.
Warren MacKenzie
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Its very comforting to know that you are faced with a difficult job. If someone gives you a job which shows every sign of being easy, then you are a prisoner of effortlessness.
Raymond Aubrac
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There is an art in taking the whiplash of suffering full in the face, an art you must learn. Let each single attack exhaust itself; pain always makes single attacks, so that its bite may be more intense, more concentrated. And you, while its fangs are implanted and injecting their venom at one spot, do not forget to offer it another place where it can bite you, and so relieve the pain of the first.
Cesare Pavese
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In my opinion, understanding who your target audience is, and what they want, and writing to them (and only them!) is the most important component of being successful as an author.
John Locke
Nazareth
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The root of prayer is interior silence.
Thomas Keating
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Finn smiled ruefully. "I'm a Prisoner, old man. Just like you.
Catherine Fisher