Gasparine Patrons Quotes & Sayings

One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned, but that another is richer in reason scarcely any will confess: Rare is he who will concede genius. — Juana Ines De La Cruz

Reading aloud sounds like a good idea, but honestly, it doesn't work very well. Good dialogue in a book doesn't actually bear much resemblance to real-life dialogue. For example, if you've ever seen a word-for-word transcript of people talking, it doesn't read off the page very well. The trick is to make it *seem* like it's being spoken, not to make it speakable. — Patrick Rothfuss

The reality for us in America is that we will never get out of debt with more than 15 million people out of work. — Debbie Stabenow

The blossoms fall just once each winter, yet in our memories, they fall every day. — David Kudler

I live in too many cities. — Shirley Maclaine

It was then we found ourselves too many fields away from
where we'd meant to be, with regard to desire, to get there
ever, even if - though this was not the case - we'd been
told the way. — Carl Phillips

My husband and I will always be two people living one life of perfect imperfection. — Nina Lane

The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of mind calmly to investigate, or candidly to appreciate, the motives of their enemies, which often escape the impartial and discerning view even of those who are placed at a secure distance from the flames of persecution. — Edward Gibbon