"After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love."

-- Ernest Hemingway

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“In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.”
“Sustaining growth is the century's big challenge.”

Source : "Sustaining growth is the century’s big challenge" by Martin Wolf, www.ft.com. June 11, 2008.
“To me, itâ€™s always whatâ€™s next and I think thatâ€™s what drives most very successful people. Itâ€™s never about the money. I mean thatâ€™s a way of keeping score. Itâ€™s about achievement and itâ€™s about winning a game and itâ€™s about upping the ante.”
“Edward Abbey said you must brew your own beer; kick in you Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. I already had a good start. As a teenager in rural Maine, after we came to America, I had learned hunting, fishing, and trapping in the wilderness. My Maine mentors had long ago taught me to make home brew. I owned a rifle, and I'd already built a log cabin. The rest should be easy. I thought I'd give it a shot.”

Source : Bernd Heinrich (1994). “A Year in the Maine Woods”, Addison-Wesley Longman
“You'll also need to invest in yourself with the kind of promo that targets your specific audience to help build that word of mouth. Most importantly, believe in what you're doing and in your music and lyrics.”
“The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothing had changed.Except the look in Jim's eyes.Last night. . . said Will. Did or didn't it happen?”
“The trouble with science fiction is that you can write about everything: time, space, all the future, all the past, all of the universe, any kind of creature imaginable. That's too big. It provides no focus for the artist. An artist needs, in order to function, some narrowing of focus. Usually, in the history of art, the narrower the focus in which the artist is forced to work, the greater the art.”
“When God gets ready to shake America, He may not take the Ph.D. and the D.D. God may choose a country boy ... God may choose the man that no one knows, a little nobody, to shake America for Jesus Christ in this day, and I pray that He would!”

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