"Ultimately, your #â€Ž theme will find you. You don't have to go looking for it."

-- Richard Russo

“When it comes to world news, attitude is what marks the distinction between justice and vengeance. Justice is pure, but vengeance brings more ruin.”
“Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
“If modernist naturalism were true, there would be no objective truth outside of science. In that case right and wrong would be a matter of cultural preference, or political power, and the power already available to modernists ideologies would be overwhelming.”
“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.”
“I love you now for what we've already shared, and I love you now in anticipation of all that's to come.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Dec 01, 2015
“Every movie is wildly different. So many of the problems are the same, but they take on different guises.”

Source : "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.
“Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life.”
“The more you put in your brain, the more it will hold -- if you have one.”

Source : "Might as Well Be Dead". Book by Rex Stout. Chapter 9, 1956.

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