"When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed."

-- Tea Obreht

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“Beauty is but the sensible image of the infinite. Like truth and justice, it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law, it is a companion of the soul.”
“The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.”

Source : Henri Pirenne (2013). “Mohammed and Charlemagne”, p.284, Routledge
“Never look back' is my philosophy.”
“Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.”
“The agreement of the parties cannot make that good which the law maketh void.”

Source : Sir Edward Coke, Sir Thomas Littleton, John Henry Thomas, Sir Matthew Hale, Francis Hargrave (1818). “A Systematic Arrangement of Lord Coke's First Institute of the Laws of England: On the Plan of Sir Matthew Hale's Analysis; with the Annotations of Mr. Hargrave, Lord Chief Justice Hale, and Lord Chancellor Nottingham; and a New Series of Notes and References to the Present Time: Including Tables of Parallel Reference, Analytical Tables of Contents, and a Copious Digested Index ..”, p.444
“The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.”
“In pursuing a â€˜way,â€™ Japanese typically move beyond an interest in craftsmanship to a kind of sacred search for the ultimate.”
“It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.”

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