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“Your life informs your writing.”

Quote by Quintin Jardine

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Quintin Jardine

Quintin Jardine is a Scottish author known for his historical novels. His works, often set in the Scottish Highlands, blend historical facts with fictional elements, and have gained popularity among readers. more

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“For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.”

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“If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.”

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“There will always be people like me, who believe that to ripple the pages of a printed book is a special experience, one that through the centuries has taken millions from the darkness into the light.”

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“Sometime in the first billion years, life appeared on the earth's surface. Slowly, the fossil record indicates, living organisms climbed the ladder from simple to more advanced forms.”

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Book:White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars

Source: White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars

“The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history.”

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Book:White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars

Source: White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars

“The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.”

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Book:Red Giants and White Dwarfs: The Evolution of Stars, Planets, and Life

Source: Red Giants and White Dwarfs: The Evolution of Stars, Planets, and Life

“The record of the rocks contains very little, other than bacteria and one-celled plants until, about a billion years ago, after some three billion years of invisible progress, a major breakthrough occurred. The first many-celled creatures appeared on earth.”

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Author:Robert Jastrow

“My art in the last period has all been in small format, but my paintings have become even deeper and more spiritual, speaking truly through colour. Feeling that because of my illness I would not be able to paint very much longer, I worked like a man obsessed on these little 'Meditations' (a long series of small paintings he made during the last years of his life, with as main motif the schema of a face, ed.). And now I leave these small but, to me, important works to the future and to people who love art.”

“We should not play like Australia or India or England - we should play like Sri Lanka.”

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“We got email today from an LGF reader who was browsing the Lexis research system and discovered that anti-American, anti-capitalist icon Noam Chomsky has embarrassingly capitalist tastes; among other expensive property he owns a 36,155 square foot home near Cambridge, a 13,503 square foot vacation home, and four boats. And we won't even mention the cars. Teaching kids to hate their own country seems to pay quite well.”