"Attention makes the genius; all learning, fancy, science and skills depend upon it. Newton traced his discoveries to it. It builds bridges, opens new worlds, heals diseases, carries on the business of the world. Without it taste is useless, and the beauties of literature unobserved."

-- Robert Aris Willmott

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“Writing as an art form belongs to all people, regardless of economic class or educational level. . . . A writer is someone who writes.”

Source : Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.206, Oxford University Press
“When you listen to a thought, you are aware not only of the thought but also of yourself as the witness of the thought. A new dimension of consciousness has come in.”
“My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle.”
“Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.”
“I talk to trees and animals. We have interesting conversations about food, weather, and love. They sometimes can predict the future.”
“In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.”
“And the lesson is that I should always wear these, so no one asks me to do anything crazy like climb onto a roof. ~Jaime Vegas on why she wears three inch heels on a mission”
“There is a shabby nobility in failing all by yourself.”

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