"It's a little like packing for a trip. First you lay out everything that might possibly be useful, with no thought about the size of your suitcase. Then, look at your suitcase. In the case of narrative, there's a certain obligation to keep the pace up and have each section or subsection be doing something."

-- George Saunders

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“The day my child tries a celery is the most stressful day of my life.”
“You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”

Source : Abraham Lincoln, Jack Stevenson (2017). “Abraham Lincoln: 100 Influential Quotes of My Life”, Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
“The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "It is better for a leader to make a mistake in forgiving than to make a mistake in punishing."”
“I love everything Buffy. I don’t care who’s doing it.”

Source : "'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' remake: Kristy Swanson supports it... and wants to act in it" by Sandra Gonzalez, www.ew.com. November 23, 2010.
“The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such.”
“From heaven's standpoint, all spiritual victories are won not primarily in the pulpit, not primarily in the klieg light of publicity, nor yet through the ostentatious blaring of trumpets, but in the secret place of prayer.”
“No matter how dim the light filtering through the trees is, you can still try your best to grasp it. -Kaien Cross”
“Zen is not about eliminating thoughts but illuminating them.”

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