"Man is a passion which brings a will into play, which works an intelligence."

-- Henri Frederic Amiel

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“All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.”
“We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager is all about! Whether you admit it or not, you are all worried that the others wonâ€™t accept you, that if they knew the real you, they would recoil in horror. Each of us carries with us a secret shame that we think is somehow uniqueâ€¦And if we are, each of us, freaks â€“ then canâ€™t we accept whatâ€™s different in each other and move on?”
“No matter how much light I carry within me, there will always be times of feeling lost, being confused, seeking direction. It is the way of the human heart.”

Source : Joyce Rupp (2003). “The Star in My Heart: Experiencing Sophia, Inner Wisdom”, Sorin Books
“Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.”
“It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.”

Source : David Riesman (1964). “Abundance for What?”, p.177, Transaction Publishers
“Cultural anthropology is more and more rapidly getting to realize itself as a strictly historical science.”
“In this art form, in any art form, generalities are useless.”
“Words, do not have twins in every language. Sometimes they only have distant cousins, and sometimes they pretend that they are not even related.”

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