"The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught."

-- Anne Rice

#Character Quotes #Principles Quotes #Catharsis Quotes

“I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.”
“There is more in art, with an apology to that much abused word, as applied to photography, than startling display lines, on mounts and signs announcing artist Photographer, Artistic Photography Studio, etc., and the lower the standard the more frantic the claim.”
“I can see forms and shapes in my mind when I solo, just as a painter can see forms and shapes when he starts painting. And I can see different colors.”
“I kept asking myself if I felt different, if I was different. The answer was always yes. I was no longer nothingâ€¦ How odd, I thought; it had taken my motherâ€™s death, Father Quinelâ€™s murder, and the desire of others to kill me to claim a life of my own.”

Source : Avi, (2004). “The Crispin: Cross of Lead”, Hyperion
“I think everything is fair game to a certain extent.”
“If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.”
“At the expansion stage, it's really easy to lose focus and chase the shiny object, instead of staying focused on what you're good at and the customers that are already successful.”
“A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart”

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