"Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them."

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Source : Barbara Deming (1974). “We cannot live without our lives”

Barbara Deming

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“I'm putting my emotion out on stage so people can actually feel me. If you feel somebody's art and you see them perform it and they aren't feeling it, that's one of the first things in the game.”

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“The inquirer after holiness should associate with those whose intelligence will instruct him; whose example will guide him; whose conversation will inspire him; whose cautions will warn him.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 314, 1895.
“This is another kind of competition, but I'm being coached by an excellent team, and I've got a real strong competitive spirit.”
“I busted out of the place in a hurry and went to a saloon and drank beer and said that for the rest of my life I'd never take a job in a place where you couldn't throw cigarette butts on the floor. I was hooked on this writing for newspapers and magazines.”
“You build up a head of steam. If you're four days out of the studio, on the fifth day you really crash in there. You will kill anybody who disturbs you on that fifth day, when you desperately need it.”
“A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.”
“Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.”
“That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns.”

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