"If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain.Â By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you arenâ€™t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks."

-- Ian Fleming

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“The gossamer web of life, spun on the loom of sunlight from the breath of an infant Earth, is nature's crowning achievement on this planet.”
“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June”
“So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It isolates us from other people. It enables us to build walls, literal and figurative, around ourselves. We move from a teeming college dorm to an apartment to a house, and if we're really wealthy, to an estate. We think we're moving up, but really we're walling off ourselves.”

Source : Eric Weiner (2014). “The Geography of Bliss”, p.151, Random House
“Well, well, so you aren't going to be a maidservant this time?" said Pippi, stroking his back. "Oh, that was a lie, that's true," she continued. "But still, if it's true, how can it be a lie?" she argued. "You wait and see, it's going to turn out he was a maidservant in Arabie after all, and if that's the case, I know who's making the meatballs at our house hereafter!”
“Relationships are made of talk - and talk is for girls and women.”
“Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.”
“In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.”
“I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.”

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