"I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did."

-- Thomas Keneally

“We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts.”
“I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There is the sense that we are all, as writers, part of something which is more powerful than any of us.”
“From the earliest days, the Rothschilds appreciated the importance of proximity to politicians, the men who determined not only the extent of budget deficits but also the domestic and foreign policies...”

Source : Niall Ferguson (1998). “The House of Rothschild: Money's prophets, 1798-1848”, Viking Press
“I love dancing, but I'm not that good of a singer. I sang in punk rock bands in high school and college and stuff, but that mostly involved lots of screaming.”
“I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.”
“All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.”
“I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.”
“Heaven's eternal wisdom has decreed, that man should ever stand in need of man.”

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