If an author was a god, then he was a very poor second-rate one, scrabbling around in the foothills of Olympus.
– Kate Atkinson
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- A first-rate story is easily killed by second-rate design. – Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- In 1930, the death rate for Milwaukee’s blacks was nearly 60 percent higher than the citywide rate, due in large part to poor housing conditions. – Matthew Desmond
- May the four winds gather & disperse the strength to grant me with all the same blessings once bestowed upon the goddess of Olympus. – Truth Devour
- When I lay down on my deathbed, I want to know that I have done all I could to be a first rate human, not a third rate pawn of the gods. – Thomm Quackenbush
- Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics. – Steven Magee
- When rate of problems is greater than rate of solutions, only radical changes can make the difference. – Sukant Ratnakar
- None of this was what held Yeva’s gaze. Because in the bottom of the valley, straddling the river nestled in the foothills, was a castle. – Meagan Spooner
- No mountain of doom, Just foothills of Ferninand.Towers of fire and glory as far as one can see. – Megan Frazer Blakemore
- Take a second look at what you are about to do… A second look prevents a second chance. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Put first things first and we get second things thrown in:Put second things first and we lose both first things and second things. – Jim George
- Pam wasn’t what Gloria would have called a friend, just someone she had known for so long that she had given up trying to get rid of her. – Kate Atkinson
- Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them. – Kate Atkinson
- They were lucky. They’d been given history. – Kate Atkinson
- The mind is a fathomless mystery. – Kate Atkinson
- But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country – The Rest Of My Life. – Kate Atkinson
- Sometimes it was harder to change the past than it was the future. – Kate Atkinson
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- She could have happily lived inside any nineteenth century novel. – Kate Atkinson
- In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense. – Kate Atkinson
- The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door. – Kate Atkinson
- All the birds who were never born, all the songs that were never sung and so can only exist in the imagination.And this one is Teddy’s. – Kate Atkinson
- Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness – Kate Atkinson
- The past is what you take with you. – Kate Atkinson
- You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best. – Kate Atkinson
- So much for progress. How quickly civilization could dissolve into its more ugly elements. – Kate Atkinson
- was there a store somewhere full of unwanted secrets? – Kate Atkinson
- If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn’t mind being their mother. – Kate Atkinson
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- There is no second place for doing first rate work. – Jeffrey Fry
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- Primary goal for the author: ‘Write what you mean to say’Primary goal for the reader: ‘Read what the author actually writes – Falcon Dove