"I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things."

-- Colm Toibin

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“Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.”

Source : Joan Raphael-Leff (2000). “Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown”, p.1951, Karnac Books
“The opposite of the happy ending is not actually the sad ending-the sad ending is sometimes the happy ending. The opposite of the happy ending is actually the unsatisfying ending.”
“The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.”
“Now clear your minds. It knows what scares you. It has from the very beginning. Don't give it any help, it knows too much already.”
“To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.”
“As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.”
“When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.”
“She started thinking about all the euphemisms for death, all the anxious taboos that had always fascinated her. It was too bad you could never have an intelligent discussion on the subject. People were either too young or too old, or else they didn't have time.”

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