"A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive."

-- Frank Herbert

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“Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.”
“Death is the only thing keeping us in line.”

Source : Drew Magary (2011). “The Postmortal: A Novel”, p.12, Penguin
“There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.”

Source : J. D. Daniels (2017). “The Correspondence”, p.25, Random House
“I don't care so much about form. Perhaps I did in the beginning, a long time ago. But now I just want to be as straight and simple and as true as possible.”
“The earth itself is their church; the vast, open sky its ceiling.”

Source : Wayne Teasdale (2010). “The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions”, p.185, New World Library
“If you give voters a choice between a Democrat who promises to do nothing and a Republican who promises to do nothing, theyâ€™re generally going to side with the Republican, because theyâ€™re better at that than we are.”
“Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You get the best you can and do without when necessary, and hope to God you won't be wiped out by something you can't control. But there are moments it hurts, where there is something you want in the very marrow of your bones and you know there is no way you can have it.”
“The point of being a teacher is to do more than impart facts, it's to shape the way students perceive the world, to help a student absorb the rules of a discipline. The teachers who do that get remembered.”

Source : David Brooks (2011). “The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens”, p.83, Short Books

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