"If you don't know why you like a thing, it is usually worth your while to attempt to find out."

-- Paul Bowles

“Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.”
“James loved Rhode Island, ... He loved the ocean. He would sit in his beach chair for hours and look out at the ocean.”
“I think once those friendships, if you use that as an analogy, the friendships between the audience and the character is established, then you can start to take liberties. I believe that as this unfolds people will find the time invested worthwhile.”
“I always wanted to be a pilot.”
“I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.”
“Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal your ideas and build his success out of your imagination, struggling after that which you have toiled endless years to secure, striving to outdo you in each and every way. If such a competitor would work as hard to originate as he does to copy, he would much more quickly gain success.”
“Today is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.”

Source : Florence Scovel Shinn (2015). “The Secret Door to Success”, p.27, Lulu Press, Inc
“When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.”

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