"As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love."

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Source : Anne Sexton, “Small Wire”

Anne Sexton

“All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Like everyone else, I try to do quality work with great directors. But much of it has to do with luck.”

Source : "Mulroney and Amazing: A Conversation with Dermot Mulroney". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. June 2002.
“Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.”

Source : "Michael Morpurgo's top tips for writing". www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2011.
“We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.”
“In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is”
“I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.”

Source : "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.
“Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotional intelligence, hone your dreams, negotiate with your shadow, cure your ignorance, shed your pettiness, heighten your drive to look for the best in people, and soften your heart -- even as you always accept yourself for exactly who you are with all of your so-called imperfections.”

Source : Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.8, Frog Books
“Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares.”

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