"Death hastens those who hasten death."

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Source : Joan Slonczewski (2000). “A Door Into Ocean”, p.310, Macmillan

Joan Slonczewski

“Don't argue. Never deign to deny. Meet insults with laughter.”

Source : Leigh Bardugo (2013). “Siege and Storm: Chapters 1-5”, p.187, Macmillan
“Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.”
“Life is short, the art is long, the problems pressing.”
“Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.”
“I think everything you are, everything that engages you, eventually comes to bear on the novel you write. I think the creative energy in novel writing, obviously, comes from tension. From trying to fuse. From trying to make coherent disparate things that might not at all seem to belong together within a narrative.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.”
“Faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows - standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.”
“I have often started off on a walk in the state called mad-mad in the sense of sore-headed, or mad with tedium or confusion; I have set forth dull, null and even thoroughly discouraged. But I never came back in such a frame of mind, and I never met a human being whose humor was not the better for a walk.”

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