"Nothing's real unless you want it to be, and anything can be real if you want it to enough; so real doesn't really mean anything."

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Source : Zilpha Keatley Snyder (2012). “Season of Ponies”, p.39, Open Road Media

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

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“There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first; when you learn to live for others, they will live for you.”
“A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece”

Source : Lyn Hejinian (2013). “My Life and My Life in the Nineties”, p.70, Wesleyan University Press
“Nudity in the flesh doesn't bother me. But having my mind uncovered - that scares the hell out of me.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.”
“If I wanted to fight to make a better world racially, I wouldn't be in the music business. You dig, if I were going to be a freedom fighter music is the wrong field.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Some of the stainless steel discs that I play, I cut myself from pieces of stainless steel that I found. I don't make as many as I used to, because you can't get into surplus and scrap yards as easily anymore.”
“Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.”
“Most artists try to avoid cliches, but it's pretty hard to avoid them if you yourself end up being one.”

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