"One favourite find of mine has to be a 1980s black dinner jacket that I wear as a dress."

-- Lily Donaldson

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“I hate to see people frustrated or leave a company for an opportunity they could easily have had at their current company if they had only asked.”
“When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)”
“Wisdom and knowledge can best be understood together. Knowledge is learning, the power of the mind to understand and describe the universe. Wisdom is knowing how to apply knowledge and how not to apply it. Knowledge is knowing what to say; wisdom is knowing whether or not to say it. Knowledge gives answers; wisdom asks questions. Knowledge can be taught, wisdom grows from experience.”
“A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.”
“I, too, have stars/ and blue depths.”

Source : Olav H. Hauge (2008). “The Dream We Carry: Selected and Last Poems of Olav H. Hauge”, p.5, Copper Canyon Press
“Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being.”

Source : Frederick Franck (1993). “Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing: Meditation in Action”, Bantam
“Well, I was thinking this very thing. I was thinking: I am going to die today, but Jesu also died, so he knows how it is with me. And I was thinking, would he know me when I came to him? Yes! Sitting in his hall, he will see me sail into the bay, and he will run down to meet me on the shore; he will wade into the sea and pull my boat onto the sand and welcome me as his wayfaring brother. Why will he do this? Because he too has suffered, and he knows...HE KNOWS...Is that not good news?”
“I had a prejudice against the British until I discovered that fifty percent of them were female.”

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