"Time is the metre, memory the only plot."

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Source : Derek Walcott (2014). “Selected Poems”, p.231, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Derek Walcott

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“As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.”
“If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.”

Source : "Q&A: The Rev Jesse Jackson". Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2012.
“There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact.”

Source : "The Power of Two: Bonus Outtakes From WD Interview With Lincoln Child & Douglas Preston". Writer's Digest Interview, www.writersdigest.com. January 12, 2012.
“You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris”
“Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.”
“In summary, all great work is the fruit of patience and perseverance, combined with tenacious concentration on a subject over a period of months or years.”

Source : Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.64, MIT Press
“I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!”
“Live without pretending, love without depending, listen without defending, speak without offending.”

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