#ren

The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten. ↗

— Alison Lurie

#change

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#remains #renunciation #sorrow #though #willingly

I had always said to myself that forty was the cut off point of my apprenticeship which may for some people sound like a very long one, but the novel as art is a middle-aged art. ↗

— Jane Rule

#apprenticeship #art #cut #forty #had

All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected. ↗

— Donald Trump

#consciously #expected #me #unconsciously #women

Many of the French follow a Trade with the Indians, living very conveniently for that Interest. ↗

— John Lawson

#follow #french #indians #interest #living

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#bit #brings #death #different #differently

I have a responsibility to my children to be fit and healthy. ↗

— Shane Warne

#fit #healthy #i #responsibility

Enlightenment is not about cocooning one’s self, but about integrating more fully with both your self and life. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#enlightened #enlightening #enlightenment #integrate #integrating

My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of. ↗

— Amy Tan

#both #care #concert #concert pianist #day

Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness. ↗

— William Watson

#children #hate #mistrust