"Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always."

-- Garrison Keillor

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“You have to be born with it. You can't even buy it. If you could buy it, they'd have it at the next Newport Festival.”
“In early historical civilization, lunar symbols wove together three major metaphorical concepts. The first is the idea of fertility. The moon controls the tides of both water and blood â€“ the sacred fluids of the early religions. The second is the concept of periodic rebirth, symbolized by the moonâ€™s monthly waning and renewal. The third is the notion of continually repeating cycles of change.”

Source : Layne Redmond (1997). “When the Drummers Were Women: A Spiritual History of Rhythm”
“I'm serious, Harry, don't go." But Harry only had one thought in his head, which was to get back in front of the mirror, and Ron wasn't going to stop him. That third night he found his way more quickly than before. He was walking so fast he knew he was making more noise than was wise, but he didn't meet anyone. And there were his mother and father smiling at him again, and one of his grandfathers nodding happily. Harry sank down to sit on the floor in front of the mirror. There was nothing to stop him from staying here all night with his family. Nothing at all.”
“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”
“Complexity is looking at interacting elements and asking how they form patterns and how the patterns unfold. It's important to point out that the patterns may never be finished. They're open-ended. In standard science this hit some things that most scientists have a negative reaction to. Science doesn't like perpetual novelty.”
“I know it sounds so lame, but the songs are like my children.”
“I couldn't have gotten this far without my beautiful parents. I'm also very lucky to have the best friends that I do.”

Source : "Hanging with Mean Girls 2 Nicole Anderson". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. January 25, 2011.
“My actions were coming from a place of love.”

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