"I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are people who live there who have been to Manhattan maybe once or twice."

-- Ellen Burstyn

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“A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.”

Source : Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.18, Harper Collins
“I write like anyone involved with a family and a full time job: in stolen moments. I've had to adapt because I have so little writing time, so I write while dinner bubbles on the stove, and get away to cafes when I can. It is good to have a small laptop to haul around. I wish I could admit to bizarre writing habits, you know, like "I can only write in the presence of my favorite pet elephant, who is my fount of inspiration," but the truth, alas, is far more mundane.”
“War is a business in which a lot of people watch a few people get killed and are damn glad it wasn't them.”

Source : Herman Wouk (1951). “The Caine mutiny: a novel of World War II.”, Garden City
“I don't want to write a mass before being in a state to do it well, that is a Christian. I have therefore taken a singular course to reconcile my ideas with the exigencies of Academy rules. They ask me for something religious: very well, I shall do something religious, but of the pagan religion. . . . I have always read the ancient pagans with infinite pleasure, while in Christian writers I find only system, egoism, intolerance, and a complete lack of artistic taste.”
“Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.”
“Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?”
“Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.”
“Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.”

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