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“God brings us—through failure—from unconsciousness to ever-deeper consciousness and conscience.”
― Breathing Underwater
― Breathing Underwater
“The winter street is a salt cave. The snow has stopped falling and it’s very cold. The cold is spectacular, penetrating. The street has been silenced, a theatre of whiteness, drifts like frozen waves. Crystals glisten under the streetlights.”
― Fugitive Pieces
― Fugitive Pieces
“I have always held… that the skin of the bear must not be distributed until the bear has been killed.”
― The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
― The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
“Quote from Louise Penny a Canadian author. Wrote “How The Light Gets In” from an interview.
“Having started as a voracious reader (and I still am), I know that reading is as creative as writing. The writer suggests, creates a character, a setting, an atmosphere. But it’s the reader who brings it alive. Walks with the characters, sees the world, smells the wood smoke, tastes the café au lait and feels the biting cold on the tender cheek”
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“Having started as a voracious reader (and I still am), I know that reading is as creative as writing. The writer suggests, creates a character, a setting, an atmosphere. But it’s the reader who brings it alive. Walks with the characters, sees the world, smells the wood smoke, tastes the café au lait and feels the biting cold on the tender cheek”
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