"Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity."

-- Peter Straub

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“The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.”

Source : Eric Temple Bell (1937). “Men of Mathematics”
“I wouldn't call myself a woman in bluegrass. I haven't really been a part of the world for a while. It's just been a big influence on who I am today.”
“Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.”
“The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.”
“The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play.”
“On a human level, people want to see someone succeed who wants to change.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Laughter is the valve on the pressure cooker of life.”
“Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the mind is itself the principal element of creation.”

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