"I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write."

-- Louise Penny

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“Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.”
“The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.”
“Shakira is a new friend, but I love her dearly already. She's so sweet and adorable and hilarious.”
“My love was both humble and audacious, like that of a page for his lady...”
“What should exist? To me, that's the most exciting question imaginable. What do we need that we don't have? How can we realize our potential?”

Source : "Paul Allen on Invention".
“There is not eternal damnation, the only rewards and punishments are right here in this world.”

Source : Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz (1989). “The Madman and the Nun & The Crazy Locomotive: Three Plays, Including The Water Hen”, Hal Leonard Corporation
“The highest of distinctions is service to others.”
“An ex-wife is a woman with a crick in the neck from looking back over her shoulder at her matrimony.”

Source : Ursula Parrott (1989). “Ex-wife”, Plume

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