"No one grows up thinking they want to be a ghostwriter. No one plans on that job."

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Source : "Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.

Hilary Liftin

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“Without music, life is a journey through a desert.”

Source : Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese
“Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.”
“And also--to add to my problems--my parents and relatives kept telling me how they'd grown up feeling so close to the Almighty that they'd spoken to Him on a daily basis as one would speak to a friend and how, now and then, God had actually spoken back to them in the form of miracles.”
“There is beautiful you are." "No," said Marged, between a sigh and a sob. "Yes," said Owen. "No," said Marged, not so certain. "Behold," Owen said, from Solomon. "thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes." "Dove's eyes are small." Marged said. "Yours are so big they are my whole world," said Owen.”

Source : Richard Llewellyn (2009). “How Green Was My Valley”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“He is mad, bad and dangerous to know.”

Source : Writing of Byron in her journal after their first meeting at a ball in March, 1812: Elizabeth Jenkins 'Lady Caroline Lamb' (1932) ch. 6.
“The tides are in our veins.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Morley Baer, James Karman (2001). “Stones of the Sur”, p.39, Stanford University Press
“Working together, we can build a world in which the rule of law â€” not the rule of force â€” governs relations between states. A world in which leaders respect the rights of their people, and nations seek peace, not destruction or domination. And neither we nor anyone else should live in fear ever again.”
“Without doubt, Thomas Edison is my greatest contemporary.”

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