"Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate."

-- Alexander Pope

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“Give yourself permission to shoot for something that seems totally beyond your grasp. You may be surprised at your capabilities”
“If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.”
“Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.”
“I'm easily destroyed and I operate on emotional levels.”
“Sometimes, when I have to learn the lines in German and French, it's that much more difficult because it doesn't just sink in automatically, organically. I have to memorize it. It's a tricky thing, as well, as when you improvise, sometimes you want to say something but you don't know how to put it. It's more difficult than in your mother tongue. It's a challenge but, at the age of fifteen, I put myself up for it and I was aware that it would be an obstacle and many times.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story.”

Source : "Until It Isn’t". Interview with Giuseppe Taurino, americanshortfiction.org. July 15, 2014.
“It's hard to have anything isn't it? Rare to get it, hard to keep it. This is a damn slippery planet.”
“There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.”

Source : Frederick William Faber (1860). “Bethlehem”, p.381

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