"And the nice thing about writing a novel is you take your time, you sit with the character sometimes nine years, you look very deeply at a situation, unlike in real life when we just kind of snap something out."

-- Sandra Cisneros

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“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2004). “Tempting Danger”, p.30, Penguin
“What happens on the football field matters, not in the way that food matters but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others: it engages the personality.”
“No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.344
“It is a principle of the art of war that one should simply lay down his life and strike. If one's opponent also does the same, it is a even match. Defeating one's opponent is then a matter of faith and destiny.”
“I really don't work a whole lot as far as touring, but I do stand-up every night of my life, no matter where I am. It's really made the touring a lot less grueling.”
“A Curve does not exist in its full power until contrasted with a straight line.”

Source : Robert Henri (1960). “The art spirit”, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
“I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.”
“Inspiration is hogwash. My work comes directly out of my loves and hates. Muses don't whisper in my ear, and ideas don't flow over my body like a cool rain.”

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