"In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love seats. I have never seen one of them in print. Books must be written, not talked."

-- Morris West

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“She realized with deep respect that this woman had always done what she had to do and faced what she had to face. If many of her fears and burdens would have seemed unreal to another woman, there was nothing unreal about her courage.”
“In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, 'Even though we have no idea what this person would want in this circumstance in which they cannot themselves tell us what they want, a 'rational' person - meaning, myself - in that circumstance would want to die.' So you move very quickly from so-called voluntary euthanasia to involuntary euthanasia. These legal and medical developments are not simply hypothetical They're in the courts right now.”
“Athens was a great experience and I'll always be able to look back on it and say I achieved my ultimate goal in gymnastics.”
“At this time I would like to encourage everyone to reach out to the ones you love. Let them have no doubt of what they mean to you.”
“A good problem statement often includes what is known, what is unknown, and what is sought.”

Source : Edward Hodnett (1955). “The art of problem solving: how to improve your methods”, Harper & Brothers
“There'sthemeat eaters and there'sus. And that'stheway I look at the world.”
“The door to the soul is unlocked; you do not need to please the doorkeeper, the door in front of you is yours, intended for you, and the doorkeeper obeys when spoken to.”
“Whether something is called art is beside the point. What counts is what happens when you ask it to actually be art.”

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