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My theory is that I decided to be a writer when I was about seven, but of course it is not as simple as that. Like most writers, I had to work at other things to earn a living and wrote mainly in the evenings, often very late at night, for many years. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#course #decided #earn #evenings #had

When you are reading, someone has done a lot of work on your behalf, someone has had ideas and has then written and corrected and improved them so that they can be shared. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#corrected #done #had #ideas #improved

I had a quick grasp of the secret to sanity, it had become the ability to hold the maximum of impossible combinations in one's mind. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#become #combinations #grasp #had #hold

Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#alive #because #certain #feel #fully

Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them. ↗

— Ella Maillart

#activity #among #appreciate #direct #every

It is true that the aristocracies seem to have abused their monopoly of legal knowledge; and at all events their exclusive possession of the law was a formidable impediment to the success of those popular movements which began to be universal in the western world. ↗

— Henry James Sumner Maine

#events #exclusive #formidable #impediment #knowledge

'Government gets things right' does not encourage sales. 'Government makes another blunder' does encourage sales, so there's a commercial imperative that pushes sensationalism. ↗

— John Major

#blunder #commercial #does #encourage #gets

Security is something that serves Israeli interests and Palestinian interests. You have a common threat and you have a common enemy and it's important to deal with that as partners. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#common enemy #deal #enemy #important #interests

I've never minded my kids watching any of the series I did. That's important to me. ↗

— Lee Majors

#did #i #important #kids #me

I'm more likely to lose my temper on a film set than almost anywhere. Often the level of idiocy is so exalted that it's impossible to comprehend. ↗

— John Malkovich

#anywhere #comprehend #exalted #film #film set