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“Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.†I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.†There was another pause. . . “That is the most romantic thing I’ve ever heard you say,†Bran said. “Be careful, Adam, or you’ll turn her into a real girl.†Adam looked at me. “I like her just the way she is, Bran.†And he meant it, greasy overalls, broken fingernails, and all.”
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“I would roll up pennies to take the subway to work in Times Square. I was broke, but I was happy.”
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“So passeth, in the passing of a day, Of mortall life the leafe, the bud, the flowre”
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“After ages during which the earth produced harmless trilobites and butterflies, evolution progressed to the point at which it generated Neros, Genghis Khans, and Hitlers. This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.”
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“When people ask about inspirations, and you're like 'oh, it was a flower or a mountain or a pony', some people just think you're insane. I'm worried to come across that way.”
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“Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.”
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“I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eyeballs.”
Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007. 
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“There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation.”
Source : Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “The Art of Power”, p.19, Harper Collins
