"Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake."

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Source : Brian Jacques (2004). “The Bellmaker: A Tale from Redwall”, p.109, Penguin

Brian Jacques

#Sound Quotes #Deeds Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Within each individual young person you meet, you have the same fields to plough. The trick is just to wake them up, to sharpen their ears for what's already there in the music.”
“In terms of people that I know, my grandmother and my mother are huge influences on my writing life because they are both massively supportive and always have been of my career.”
“The song is celebrating someone's life. When someone passes, you should focus on all the good that that person has done, and try not to really think about the fact that they're not gonna be on this earth any longer, that they had an effect on you and your lives, and that's what you should take out.”
“Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1986). “The Hour of the Star”, p.17, New Directions Publishing
“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”
“Trust is built on telling the truth, not telling people what they want to hear.”
“I'm used to going into the studio and smoking and drinking until three in the morning. But I can't drink as much because I'm breastfeeding. See this glass of wine? Before, I'd have, like, four of them. Now, one is good. Oh, and I quit smoking. . . I've exorcised a lot of my demons, but I'm still working on myself. I think I'll be a work in progress for the rest of my life.”

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