"Courage is the standing army of the soul which keeps it from conquest, pillage, and slavery."

-- Henry Van Dyke

#Courage Quotes #Army Quotes #Soul Quotes

“The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.”

Source : "The 'Ready for Her Close-Up" Transcript" by Dahlia Lithwick, www.slate.com. May 26, 2015.
“Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.”

Source : Edgar Degas, Jean Sutherland Boggs (1988). “Degas [exposition]”, p.535, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“I am not bored at all. I am not bored in the least.”
“Iâ€™ve always been a woman of faith.”
“If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body.”
“I have stopped finding fault with creation and have learned to accept it. We have some power in us that knows its own ends. It is that which drives us on to what we must finally becomeâ€¦ This is the true meaning of transformation. This is the real metamorphosis.”

Source : David Malouf (2012). “An Imaginary Life”, p.58, Random House
“Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.”
“New York City has finally hired women to pick up the garbage, which makes sense to me, since, as I've discovered, a good bit of being a woman consists of picking up garbage.”

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