"David Bowie is such a big influence to me. Everything about him as a person is intriguing to me."

-- Leona Lewis

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“People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.”
“The fact of the matter is that mistakes are really important way to learn.”
“A world without dragons is a world not worth living in.”
“Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.”
“As a writer, you live in permanent self-doubt; youre on permanent trial.”
“I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.”
“As Einstein himself pointed out. He said weâ€™re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We canâ€™t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But itâ€™s there.”

Source : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
“People think of Paris as the city of love or the city of light, but where you got love you got hate, where you got light you got darkness.”

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