"As the new work fills my notebooks, I've come to realize that the characters in my stories were so real because I really did want to get close to people, I really did want to know them. It was just easier to do it on paper, one step removed."

-- Charles de Lint

#Notebook Quotes #Real Quotes #Character Quotes

“We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.”
“Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.”
“I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should.”
“Sometimes people can be guilty of not working at relationships and if it's not working, oof, that's it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“When journalists come to interview me, it's a part of my life that is exhibited, as if pieces of clothing are being taken off one by one. But it's not very important really.”
“Leading fosters a working atmosphere that stimulates an open exchange of ideas and fosters dissent. People should show a genuine concern for one another and treat one another with fairness, as peers and friends. With such an atmosphere it should be a pleasure to come to work.”

Source : Marvin Bower (1997). “The Will to Lead: Running a Business with a Network of Leaders”, p.131, Harvard Business Press
“Maybe life was like a sea, and all the people were like boats ... Everybody who was born was cast into the sea. Winds would blow them in all directions. Tides would rise and turn, in their own rhythm. And the boats - they just went along as best they could, trying to find a harbor.”
“There are two births: the one when light, First strikes the new awakened sense; The other when two souls unite, And we must count our life from thence, When you loved me and I loved you, Then both of us were born anew.”

Source : William Cartwright, “To Chloe,Who For His Sake Wished Herself Younger”

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