"The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better."

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Source : Jane Rule (2013). “A Hot-Eyed Moderate: Essays”, p.122, Open Road Media

Jane Rule

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“It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination, which pretends there is a future, and insists on predicting millions of moments, thousands of days, and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.”

Source : Andre Dubus (2010). “The Times Are Never So Bad: A Novella and Eight Short Stories”, p.122, Open Road Media
“If you were to come to the set of Alias, you'd know how silly we all are. And I mean, silly.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Once you start laughing, you start healing.”
“The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps.”
“When you step further into the story you came to live, not only does the mythic territory open, but the deep self moves and the world of imagination and meaning comes towards you.”
“You can't anticipate history. It's only when you look back you see what the Romans did, and what various other empires did, what the British Empire did. We're now beginning to see the long shadow that it created, so one must be hopeful and say that what's going on in Asia, that what's going on in the Middle East, that all these various areas of conflict, that they will pass and move onto another area. But it would seem that the natural order of things is there is this cyclic behavior of destruction followed by a calm period.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.”
“The things that really matter don't mix with idle chatter.”

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