"Life is a verb, not a noun."

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Source : Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.203, Rowman Altamira

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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“Breaking free, or not, is usually determined by whether you want to get somewhere slowly or nowhere fast.”

Source : Tonya Hurley (2012). “Ghostgirl: Lovesick”, p.132, Hachette UK
“We have each other, and our stories twist and mingle like the twisting currents of a river. We hold each other tight as we spin and lurch across our lives. There are moments of great joy and magic. The most astounding things can lie waiting as each day dawns, as each page turns.”
“Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.”

Source : "An Interview With Author Peter Carey". Interview with Ben Evans, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 6, 2010.
“I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.”
“Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.”
“The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.”

Source : Gabriel Kolko (2008). “Triumph of Conservatism”, p.222, Simon and Schuster
“All of [motherhood] surprised me. It surprised me from the very first second I saw Jack. I'd believed that my pregnancy was a condition. It never computed. And there he was. Everyone made fun of me because I stared at him for months and months, not being able to believe he was real.”
“I think fiction allows us to sit for a while with people we would rather not meet.”

Source : Uwem Akpan (2009). “Say You're One of Them”, Back Bay Books

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