"Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

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“To appreciate art you’ve got to work at it a bit.”

Source : "Grayson Perry: 'To appreciate art you've got to work at it a bit'". Interview with Andrew Anthony, www.theguardian.com. October 12, 2013.
“The key to beating the Dodgers is to keep them form hugging each other too much.”
“When I'm out on a long run," she continued, "the only thing in life that matters is finishing the run. For once, my brain isn't going blehblehbleh all the time. Everything quiets down, and the only thing going on is pure flow. It's jus time and the movement and the motion.That's what love--just being a barbarian, running through the woods.”
“Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.”
“If there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.”
“We love and live in power; it is the spirit's end. Mind must subdue; to conquer is its life.”
“What they frequently want to do with a movie is, they want to cut out the valleys and just show the peaks. And valleys are important; the valleys make the peaks stand out.”
“The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.”

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