"I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel."

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Source : Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.36, Penguin

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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“When I started on the path, too, I really thought I would become a yogi in a cave, but I didn't have clarity about my path. When I evolved in the ashram for six months, I learned a lot, but I realized that it was not my natural state of being. So, I came back to the world.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.”
“Tree sitting is a last resort. When you see someone sitting in a tree trying to protect it, you know that every level of our society has failed.”

Source : Julia Hill (2010). “Legacy of Luna: The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods”, p.43, Harper Collins
“I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.”
“Profound thoughts and profound experiences get revealed to be tricks that we play on ourselves, and poetry gets revealed to be just, like, some dumb words that somebody put in an interesting order.”
“My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.”

Source : Charles Farrar Browne “The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 7”, Library of Alexandria
“One day, Sally Kirkland said to Diana Vreeland, who was the fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar at the time, "I have a young woman I want you to meet. She's very young, but I think you should meet her." When Sally Kirkland told me this, I said, "I can't possibly do that! I'm going to throw up! That's the scariest thing I've ever heard! I can't do that, Sally. I'm not ready to do that!" But Sally said, "You let them make that decision." I was absolutely terrified.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.”

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