"Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part."

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Alexander Pope

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“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.”

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“Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.”
“Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.”
“Beautiful is dangerous.”
“Sometimes people damage paintings or sculpture because they love it. They throw their arms around a statue in a fit of hysterical passion and it falls over.”
“I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.'”
“Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.”

Source : Samuel R. Delany (1968). “Nova”

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