"There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer."

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Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.281, D & M Publishers

Emily Carr

#Writing Quotes #Soul Quotes #Stronger Quotes

“Thatâ€™s the thing about a human life-thereâ€™s no control group, no way to ever know how any of us would have turned out if any variables had been changed.”
“Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.”
“I like writing for other people. I love it. It's great because you write it and then you hand it off to someone else. But in terms of directing, anything I direct will be something I've written or re-written. I'm in no crazy rush to direct.”
“Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk.”
“My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.”
“Mara Casey gave me my first job. I saw something online, and it was for a part in a Gilmore Girls episode, and I thought I was right for it.”

Source : "Across 'The Pacific'". Interview with Cassie Carpenter, www.backstage.com. May 14, 2010.
“Becoming like Jesus is as much as about having a relaxed and joyful heart as it is about believing and doing the right thing, as much about proper energy as about proper truth.”
“The poems ... are moments when I had the intensity to see, and the energy to build, some careful analog that completed the seeing. ... All I have been left is the exhausting habit of trying to tack up the slack in my life with words.”

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