"Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face."

-- Tama Janowitz

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“I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.”
“Faith is the vital artery of the soul. When we begin to believe, we begin to love. Faith grafts the soul into Christ, as the scion into the stock, and fetches all its nutriment from the blessed Vine.”
“As a composer you want to tell musicians two completely contradictory things. You want to say, "Play exactly what I wrote, but bring your own thing to it." In a lot of ways they feel like opposites, but in a sense, my job is to cajole or encourage decisions that I approve of.”
“At one time, most of my friends could hear the bell, but as years passed, it fell silent for all of them. Even Sarah found one Christmas that she could no longer hear its sweet sound. Though I've grown old, the bell still rings for me, as it does for all who truly believe.”

Source : Chris Van Allsburg (1985). “The Polar Express”
“He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.”

Source : Justina Chen (2009). “North of Beautiful”, p.119, Hachette UK
“I can give you the tools to reach the dreams you have inside.”
“'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.”
“If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.”

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