"Once you start on an idea it proliferates in itself."

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Lore Segal

“may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back”
“I never went to school beyond the 3rd grade, but my mother taught me the difference between right and wrong.”
“Not when the sense is dim, But now from the heart of joy, I would remember Him: Take the thanks of a boy.”

Source : Henry Charles Beeching (1891). “Love's Looking Glass: A Volume of Poems”
“I do like nice things; we do live in a great house, but I don't choose my friends by how much money they have or what labels they're wearing.”

Source : "'Real Housewives of O.C.'s' Heather Dubrow Reveals 5 Things You Didn't Know About Her" by Jethro Nededog, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 21, 2012.
“Most of the 16-year-olds I know are snotty brats that I wish I didn't know.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.”

Source : Celia Elizabeth Green (1976). “The decline and fall of science”, Hamish Hamilton
“I'm very much a lead by example person.”
“Journalism is the only thinkable alternative to working.”

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