"That's what I love about writing. Once you get the words down on paper, in print, they start to make sense. It's like you don't know what you think until it dribbles from your brain down your arm and into your hand and out through your fingers and shows up on the computer screen, and you read it and realize: That's really true; I believe that."

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Source : Ellen Wittlinger (2012). “Hard Love”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Ellen Wittlinger

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“A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.”

Source : Interview with Bertrand Benoit, Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.
“I'm screaming at the top of my voice”

Source : Song: Same Mistake, Album: All the Lost Souls, 2007
“All else being equal, the guy with the best genetics will have the best physique. But rarely are all things equal.”
“All power is vested in, and consequently derived from, the people; [...] magistrates are their trustees and servants, and at all times amenable to them.”
“Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes.”
“I can't figure it out yet, just how to make it perfect for you, but I'm closer than I was yesterday”

Source : Song: Bad Habits, Album: I Am, 2007
“Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.”
“I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.”

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