#gr

الصينيون اخترعوا كلّ شيء ، وفكّروا في كلّ شيء ، وفهموا كلّ شيء . والانكباب على دراسة الصين هو انكباب على دراسة الذكاء مجسّدا ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#chains #novel #biography

انتفاء الجوع مأساة لم يتطرق إليها أحد من قبل ↗

— Amélie Nothomb

#novel #biography

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#reading #biography

We make Rizal in our own image and likeness. Our image of Rizal is usually formed or deformed in school through numerous biographies with flattering titles. ↗

— Ambeth R. Ocampo

#biography

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting… ↗

— Mary MacLane

#selfishness #biography

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#biography

One man's pornography is another man's theology. ↗

— Clive Barker

#theology #theology

We're like the wicked witch. We promise gingerbread, then eat the little brats alive. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#coronal #ender-s #game #gingerberad #graff

Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#bravery #clockwork-princess #ducks #tessa-gray #william-herondale

The rule is: don’t use commas like a stupid person. I mean it. ↗

— Lynne Truss

#grammar #stupid #tolerance