"You know how it is to want something. Desire builds like a little house in your head and it sits there, half-constructed in your mind. Women who want children are this way. Artists are this way about pictures. It doesn't go away. You may forget for a few months but then it's back, the unfinished pieces of what you want."

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Source : Deb Olin Unferth (2010). “Vacation”, p.99, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Deb Olin Unferth

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“I always start a painting with the sky.”
“There is no truth to any meeting or physical encounter,”

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“The Mother Tantra says that if one is not aware in vision, it is unlikely that one will be aware in behavior. If one is not aware in behavior, one is unlikely to be aware in dream. And if one is not aware in dream, then one is unlikely to be aware in the bardo after death.”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.81, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“When Kirk dies it was very emotional and very strange, in the moment and all the way through the process. I'd read it in the script and I'd always be struck by what I'd just done and what we were doing, and that this was my childhood hero and I was writing his death.”
“Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.”
“The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.”
“If you do something with your whole heart and it's a mistake, you can live with that.”
“Give the enemy an inch, hell take a yard.”

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