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Literary Quotation of the Week
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Literary Quotation of the Week
“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive – it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there?” (L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables).
Literary Quotation #6
“Things does have a way of fixing themselves, whether you worry or not. If you hustle, it will happen, if you don’t hustle, it will still happen. Everybody living to dead, no matter what they doing while they living, in the end everybody dead.” (Selvon, The Lonely Londoners)
Literary Quotations #5
“Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour.” (Dickens, Barnaby Rudge)
Literary Quotation of the Week – #2
“The idea that winter could actually be enjoyable would never have occurred to the Ramtop people, who had 18 different words for snow. (All of them, unfortunately, unprintable)”. (Terry Pratchett Wyrd Sisters)
June's Jottings 