"The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task."

-- Robertson Davies

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“The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of 'Curses' makes a sequel conceivable when compared with, say, the plot of 'Hamlet' but none is planned.”
“The mind has been likened to a piece of paper that has been folded. Ever afterwards it has a tendency to fold in the same crease-unless we make a new crease or fold, when it will follow the last lines.”

Source : William Walker Atkinson (2016). “THE POWER OF MIND - 17 Books Collection: The Key To Mental Power Development And Efficiency, Thought-Force in Business and Everyday Life, The Power of Concentration, The Inner Consciousness…: Suggestion and Auto-Suggestion + Memory: How to Develop, Train, and Use It, Practical Mental Influence + The Subconscious and the Superconscious Planes of Mind + Self-Healing by Thought Force…”, p.782, e-artnow
“This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.”

Source : David Benioff (2008). “City of Thieves: A Novel”, p.32, Penguin
“The era of resisting big government is never over.”
“Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.”
“I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must learn to work out which particular moves he should consider and then examine just as many variations as necessary - no more and no less.”
“The Bible talks about your spirit being immortal, that you were created for existence beyond your physical body. Well, that's no different from Scientology! I don't think that because the word someone uses for spirit is thetan that the definition becomes any different.”
“You dont know how hard it was for me to take you and leave them alive.”

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