"I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us."

-- Charles de Lint

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“Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.”
“You donâ€™t become a teacher to make a world of money. You become a teacher to make a world of difference.”
“If the souls of lives were voiced in music, there are some that none but a great organ could express, others the clash of a full orchestra, a few to which nought but the refined and exquisite sadness of a violin could do justice. Many might be likened unto common pianos, jangling and out of tune, and some to the feeble piping of a penny whistle, and mine could be told with a couple of nails in a rusty tin-pot.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2009). “My Brilliant Career”, p.456, The Floating Press
“Article Five: If you have no reason or ability to accomplish anything, then just practice the art of becoming.”
“The movie that makes me cry isÂ Anchorman. I have the biggest crush on Will FerrelÂ I love him in every film he does. I mean, Ryan GoslingÂ could be my child. I'm not going to have a crush on a child. Will Ferrell is a man.”
“I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.”
“I have no complaints. I am comfortable and satisfied. I am not the kind of person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.”
“Human consciousness becomes a terrible gift which challenges the power that gave it.”

Source : Alison Jolly (1999). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”

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