"They say the test of [literary power] is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, "Can he name a kitten?" And by this test I am condemned, for I cannot."

-- Samuel Butler

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“We are all mediums for our own basic truths. All we really have in life is the primal force that moves us through our days--our unvarnished, untutored, ever-present, inborn agency.”

Source : "The Silent Wife".
“If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.”
“Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.”

Source : "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.
“Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.”

Source : Hugh Blair (1798). “Sentimental Beauties from the Writings of Dr. Blair: Selected with a View to Refine the Taste, Rectify the Judgment, and Mould the Heart to Virtue”, p.247
“Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.”
“I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.”
“Poetry, music, forests, oceans, solitude-they were what developed enormous spiritual strength. I came to realize that spirit, as much or more than physical conditioning, had to be stored up before a race.”
“There is as much wisdom in soliciting good counsel as in giving it. The most sensible people are not reluctant to consider the feelings of other people; and to know how to submit to the wise guidance of others is a kind of wisdom in itself.”

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