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“Don't let life dangle in front of you, grab it, seize the day!”

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“Era molto più facile dirigere gli uomini francesi che non gli inglesi. Gli inglesi fingevano di essere onesti e pratici ma sotto sotto erano una razza di eccentrici. Solo i francesi dimostravano buonsenso nelle questioni importanti, non ero forse d'accordo? «Non saprei, Millie» risposi. «Quali sono le questioni importanti?». «L'amore e il denaro. Cos'altro c'è?». «La crudeltà».”

Alasdair Gray Poor Things

Book:Poor Things

Source: Poor Things

“Visitors entering the auditorium will notice a rainbow in the centre of the eastern gable, between two arches. This arcs above a portrait of Gray's Bella Baxter from his novel Poor Things (Gray 1992), here renamed Bella Caledonia, a Scottish heroine depicyed with tartan draped over her arm, holding a thistle. The words 'LET US FLOURISH BY TELLING THE TRUTH' accompany her. But that textual message, adapted from 'Let Glasgow Flourish', the motto on Glasgow's coat of arms, is one of multiple instructions.”

Alasdair Gray Poor Things Bella Baxter Bella Caledonia òRan Mór

Book:Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New

Source: Scottish Writing After Devolution: Edges of the New

“Some men fall in love with a woman, Some women fall in love with a man, Some men fall in love with another man, Some women fall in love with another woman - But I, my dear one, fell in love with Shetland. - Shetland”

Love Scotland Place Shetland

Book:Red, Cherry Red

Source: Red, Cherry Red

“But you have to remember, Shetland time is slower. There's a saying, that Shetland watches don't show minutes or hours-only years!”

Time Shetland Shetland Islands

Book:The AdderStane

Source: The AdderStane

“The winters were so bleak and black that in the summer folk were overtaken with a kind of frenzy, constant activity. There was the feeling that you had to make the most of it, be outside, enjoy it before the dark days came again. Here in Shetland they called it the 'simmer dim'.”

Shetland Simmer Dim

Book:White Nights

Source: White Nights

“In this light, at this time of the year, on impulse visitors bought up the old houses for second homes.”

Shetland Home Buyer Shetland Islands

Book:White Nights

Source: White Nights

“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”

Think Read Do Morley

Author:Christopher Morley

“At some point any vision will lose its luster and we will be sapped of passion. But an authentic vision rests in neither and rises above both.”

Desire Motivation Passion Vision Fatigue Burnout Luster

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Nothing good stands without the right attitude. You may know how to do it, but if the attitude is negative, all you can say is “I could have done it”.”

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Book:Shaping the dream

Source: Shaping the dream

“If size does matter, then dream-n-do big!”

Book:My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut