"As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many different ways, whether or not it made this list or got that review, etc. I'm sure some of that thinking has been useful to me as a writer as well."

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Danielle Dutton

#Book Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes

“Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.”
“Only here [in the Center] a new union can occur, as the Mysterious Pass is the ideal space and time to experience the interpenetrating fluctuations of Yin and Yang. The Mysterious Pass is therefore the primordial Chaos (hundun) containing the germ of life-the pre-cosmic sparkle of Original Yang and Original Yin-which is the prime mover and the materia prima of the alchemical work.”
“Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.”
“The void Papa's death left in me became a kind of cavity, into which later experiences were to be laid.”
“The main problem of living in the city that never sleeps that neither did I.”
“It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.”

Source : Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.79
“Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.”
“Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.”

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