"We have to transpose ourselves into this impressionability of mind, into this sensitivity to tears and spiritual repentance, intothis susceptibility, before we can judge how colorful and intensive life was then."

-- Johan Huizinga

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“I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“the gardens of our childhood are all beautiful.”
“I guess that is my favorite thing - to make people laugh and also to maybe engage them emotionally and touch them somehow in telling the story.”

Source : "InDepth InterView: Lesley Nicol On DOWNTON ABBEY Season Four, Playing Mrs. Patmore, MAMMA MIA!, DOWNTON Musical? & More". Interview with Pat Cerasaro, www.broadwayworld.com. December 23, 2013.
“I used to help out my father, a bricklayer, in the summer. I'd catch the bricks (that were dropped). And it made me strong, catching those bricks. I wouldn't change anything about it. That's why I'm where I am today. Really.”
“I was proper, proper fast at one point, and obviously I'm not now, so I've lost certain things, but when I was that fast I didn't need to do certain other things in a game. It was such a potent weapon.”
“Iâ€™m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, Iâ€™ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do it when Iâ€™ve not got anything better to do â€“ and even then I often do nothing instead.”
“Money doesn't buy happiness. Some people say it's a heck of a down payment, though.”
“Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.”

Source : Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.124, Vintage

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