"Affection isn't so plentiful in this life that any of us can afford to reject it when it's offered, whatever its source."

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Source : Melanie Rawn (2005). “The Star Scroll”, p.315, Penguin

Melanie Rawn

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“The best part of learning any profession, when you're really going through those huge stretching escalated times of learning and energy, is when you want to do it so much.”
“Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut, M.D. (2010). “Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir”, p.14, Delacorte Press
“Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day”
“Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.”

Source : Thomas Nash (1964). “Pierce Penniless his supplication to the Devil: Summer's last will and testament. The terrors of the night. The unfortunate traveller, and selected writings”
“Love the questions, themselves.”
“Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.”
“Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time.”

Source : "Swiss-made Serpentine pavilion presents garden of tranquility" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.
“To the Somali, the Amerikaan is weird, to the American GI, the Somali is an ingrate and a skinny.”

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