"Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go."

-- Madeleine L'Engle

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“The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!”
“Sometimes it made him [Degas] furious that he could not find a chink in my armor, and there would be months when we just could not see each other, and then something I painted would bring us together again.”

Source : Mary Cassatt, Judith A. Barter, Erica E. Hirshler, Art Institute of Chicago (1998). “Mary Cassatt, modern woman”
“The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!”
“He moved to run a hand through her cornrows, then pulled back remembering the one time he's tried that-Connie had lectured him on the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not touch thy black girlfriend's hair. Ever.”
“When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.”

Source : "Seasons Endings and Beginnings" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 27, 2012.
“It seems farther away now because there are no rockets getting there. Nobody is going.”

Source : "Astronaut-turned-artist Alan Bean still reaching for the moon". www.cnn.com. July 16, 1999.
“The bulk of the totalitarian-minded in the democratic societies are men and women who are attracted to this destructive way of life for inner emotional reasons unknown to themselves.”
“The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).”

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