"Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense."

-- e. e. cummings

“Listening is not merely hearing. Listening is reacting. Listening is being affected by what you hear. Listening is active.”

Source : "Audition: Everything an Actor Needs to Know to Get the Part".
“Food is fun to write about because everybody has an opinion. Food is also fun to write about because it's a challenge. There are only so many ways to describe a plate of gnudi without resorting to "pillowy."”

Source : Source: www.newyorker.com
“Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.”
“If you are not astonished that you exist, your humanity is not complete.”
“The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.”
“There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.”
“I readÂ Butterflyâ€™s ChildÂ in one day, totally hooked. It is a captivating novel of love, guilt, sin, justiceâ€”and how all these things are, in time, transformed surprisingly and inevitably.”
“And as the bullet ripped through his flesh, Ralston was consumed by a single thought: I never told her that I loved her.”

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