"physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease."

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Source : Nancy Mairs (1991). “Carnal Acts: Essays”, Perennial

Nancy Mairs

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“Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.”
“The secret is to try and do 75% of the things you're really passionate about and maybe 25% doing the shitty jobs that have to be done.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.”
“the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it”

Source : Philippa Gregory (2013). “The White Queen”, p.6, Simon and Schuster
“The mistake we make is to turn upon our past with angry wholesale negation. â€¦ The way of wisdom is to treat it airily, lightly, wantonly, and in a spirit of poetry; and above all to use its symbols, which are its spiritual essence, giving them a new connotation, a fresh meaning.”
“It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.”

Source : "From our own correspondent". Interview with Edward Helmore, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2007.
“For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.”

Source : "The Wild". Book by David Zindell, 1995.
“The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.”

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