"I had to wait for a long time before I could support myself with writing. However, being a writer is what I have most wanted to be, from the time I was a child."

-- Margaret Mahy

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“I heard of somebody once who said he was interested in doing the greatest amount of good for the greatest number, and that the greatest number was number one. That was himself. That may sound like a little bit of selfishness, but if that is selfishness, at least it is a very intelligent selfishness. Everyone has a right to be interested in himself, and I am confident that God wants us to be interested in ourselves first; that is, the first soul that anyone should bring to God should be his own soul.”
“I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur any opposition other than from committed white supremacists......Keep bashing the dead white males, and the live ones, and the females, too, until the social construct known as the white race is destroyed. Not deconstructed, but destroyed.”

Source : "When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories". Book by Bernestine Singley, harvardmagazine.com. 2002.
“I say, "This is my objective" and when I stick to it, I succeed. When I deviate, I'm in trouble. Do what you do best and delegate the rest. There are things I do better than others, and there are things I'm horrible at and I delegate those.”
“My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Take love easy, as the leaves grow on the trees.”

Source : Mary Stewart (1998). “Rose Cottage”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
“The best that we can hope for in this life is that we shall not have sons and grandsons of whom we need to be ashamed.”
“THE JOY OF DISCIPLINE OR THE PAIN OF REGRET, WHICH WILL IT BE TODAY?”

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