"Waiting is one of the great arts."

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Source : Margery Allingham (2015). “The Tiger in the Smoke”, p.35, Ipso Books

Margery Allingham

#Art Quotes #Waiting Quotes #Self Control Quotes

“When characters have different goals and are intent on achieving them, conflict results. If the stakes are high and both sides are unyielding, you have the makings of high drama.”

Source : James N. Frey (2010). “How to Write a Damn Good Novel: A Step-by-Step No Nonsense Guide to Dramatic Storytelling”, p.31, Macmillan
“I never had any real expectations about what sort of success I would have or all the publicity.”
“Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.”

Source : Augusta Jane Evans (1859). “Beulah”, p.140
“I always try to have something that keeps my mind relaxed, keeps my mind a little bit off tennis.”
“I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.”
“The first book that a child reads has a colossal impact.”
“An intelligent person feels guilty for downloading music without paying the musician, but they use this free-open-culture ideology to cover it.”
“The new paradigm may be called a holistic world view, seeing the world as an integrated whole rather than a dissociated collection of parts. It may also be called an ecological view, if the term "ecological" is used in a much broader and deeper sense than usual. Deep ecological awareness recognizes the fundamental interdependence of all phenomena and the fact that, as individuals and societies we are all embedded in (and ultimately dependent on) the cyclical process of nature.”

Source : Fritjof Capra, Pier Luigi Luisi (2014). “The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

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