"As Summer into Autumn slips And yet we sooner say "The Summer" than "the Autumn," lest We turn the sun away, And almost count it an Affront The presence to concede Of one however lovely, not The one that we have loved - So we evade the charge of Years On one attempting shy The Circumvention of the Shaft Of Life's Declivity."

-- Emily Dickinson

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“You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.”
“I like being very busy. I think that's the definition of stardom, really. It's energy. It really is.”
“Cider was my drink because I liked the taste and it made me stupid.”
“Having been adopted, I really have a strong sense- a necessity almost- for stability, a foundation where my family is concerned. [Success] would be meaningless without anyone to share it with.”
“We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.”
“In a city where most of the wealth is controlled by a small few, certain things are overlooked, particularly when it comes to the assertion of privilege.”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2016). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.255, Hachette UK
“Singing, it's like it's like loving somebody, it's a supreme emotional and physical experience.”
“Some people think a martial artist has to be tough against everybody - that's not true at all. A martial artist has to be strong against bad people. But we must also be able to know and understand the feelings, moods and mentalities of good and bad individuals before we can comprehend when to be strong and when to be gentle.”

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