People had tell me the most personal things. People I'd never met before would say thing like "Oh, … - Maggie O'Farrell

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Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation.

Maggie O'Farrell

People had tell me the most personal things. People I'd never met before would say thing like "Oh, that was the summer I had an affair with my neighbor. " The 1976 heatwave occupies a peculiar place in people's psyches.

People, Psych, Say, Summer

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I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in cushioning your insecurities with a system of belief that tells you 'Don't worry. This may be your life but you're not in control. There is something or someone looking out for you -- it's already organised. ' It's all chance and choice, which is far more frightening.

Belief, Believe, Choice, Fate, Worry

She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no one will ever love them like you do. You know that no one will look after them like you do. You know that it's an impossibility, it's unthinkable that you could be taken away, that you will have to leave them behind.

Children, Taken, Son, Child, Leave, Love

Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as if the trees know, in their restlessness, in their head-tossing impatience, that something is about to happen.

Breeze, Sea, Stirring, Stories, Tree

I have two sisters, and I think siblings are always going to be irresistible for novelists. They have been throughout time and they'll continue to be.

Continue, Irresistible, Sibling, Sisters, Thinking, Throughout

Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.

Kindness, Knives, Loved, Pat, Small Acts, Table

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Linda Olsson

Like memories. You can make yourself believe that they have been erased. But they are there, if you look closely. If you have a wish to uncover them.

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Ansel Adams

Impression is not enough. Design, style, technique - these, too, are not enough. Art must reach further than impression or self-revelation.

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Michael Ende

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?

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Friedrich Nietzsche

And nobody lies as much as the indignant do.

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St. George Tucker

Nothing is better settled at the common law than the doctrine that the children, even of aliens, born in a country, while the parents reside there under the protection of the government, and owing a temporary allegiance thereto, are subjects by birth.

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