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“This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.”
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“I've tried over the years all kinds of ways of going about writing and even just thinking about the idea of writing. There was a time when I decided to try to write a song each day. Whether it was good or bad wasn't important.”
Source : "Lambchop". Interview With Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2008. 
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“The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.”
Source : Giovanni Ruffini (1858). “Doctor Antonio. A tale. By the author of Lorenzo Benoni [i.e. Giovanni Domenico Ruffini].”, p.119
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“If you lower the ambient noise of your life and listen expectantly for those whispers of God, your ears will hear them. And when you follow their lead, your world will be rocked.”
Source : Bill Hybels (2010). “The Power of a Whisper: Hearing God, Having the Guts to Respond”, p.11, Zondervan
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“Politics is a blood sport.”
Source : Quoted in Jennie Lee My Life with Nye (1980).
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“Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.”
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“I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.”
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“It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.”
