"The soul is a magician. Only living flesh hampers it."

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Source : Tanith Lee (2016). “Death's Master”, p.20, Penguin

#Soul Quotes #Flesh Quotes #Hamper Quotes

“I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat â€“ picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.”
“There's no noise like the Anfield noise - and I love it!”
“Literature is an inquiry into the deepest yearnings of the human spirit.”

Source : Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
“Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an honest and industrious man should live and die in misery. He was entitled to some degree of sympathy and security. Our conscience declared against the honest workman's becoming a pauper, but our eyes told us that he very often did.”

Source : Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”
“She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read.”
“I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.”
“I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.”
“There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.]”

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