Mal Peet Quotes

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

Mal Peet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 5, 1947 - March 2, 2015

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Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

Jimmy Buffett

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I'm going to vote in support of the president of the United States in keeping the troops in Iraq until the president and our military is convinced that the mission is complete.

John Culberson

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There are some people, no matter what they do, it turns out badly. They have a problem: either what they do is wrong or things that happen were wrong. I was president of a company like that; it was called Grid Computer.

John Morgridge

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We do not want to live in a theocracy. We should maintain that barrier and government has no business telling someone what they ought to believe or how they should conduct their private lives.

Robert Reich

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When people come up to me and say, 'I read your book,' I'm thinking, 'How dare you! Who gave you a copy?'

Steve Toltz

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When I was born, I always knew something was a little bit different about me.

Troye Sivan

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I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.

Toyin Odutola

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It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

Tommy Bond

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I do not have yearnings to get back on a bus. If it means getting on a bus, I don't want to do it.

Robbie Robertson

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What you should worry about is how you suffer here on this planet. You do not worry about suffering after you make the exit.

Rodrigo Duterte

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Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

Dennis Prager

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My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really.

Christopher Lambert

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