Eva Ibbotson Quotes
She's like snow in Russian. Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that the rose.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.
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The best reduction, the most final reduction, is to destroy the warheads.
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Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.
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You're the ones who are going to have to seize freedom, because a true revolution of the spirit begins in each of our hearts.
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The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.
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Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.
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Evidence has... been adduced that schizophrenia is widespread in other kinds of human societies. ...and they form a substantial fraction of the clientele of the tribal shamans and healers.
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Portam itineri dici longissimam esse.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
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Under which head do you class those who are at sea?
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I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false.
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I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
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'I have now learnt to despise you,' he said. 'You refused an honest prince; you did not appreciate the rose and the nightingale; but you did not mind kissing a swineherd for his toys; you have no one but yourself to blame!'
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I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
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We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all.
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Is there a bad song on 'Sign O' The Times?' There isn't.
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She's like snow in Russian. Snow in the evening when the sun sets and it looks like Alpengluhen, you know? And if snow had a scent it would smell like that the rose.
