"Saul Bellow never took my advice when he was my friend."

-- Leslie Fiedler

“I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.”
“I'm quite arty. I didn't know whether to become an artist or musician but I realised I could paint with music. All my songs have colours.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Everything's a gamble, love most of all.”

Source : Tess Gerritsen (2015). “The Rizzoli & Isles Series 11-Book Bundle: The Surgeon, The Apprentice, The Sinner, Body Double, Vanish, The Mephisto Club, The Keepsake, Ice Cold, The Silent Girl, Last to Die, Die Again”, p.768, Ballantine Books
“I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.”
“Don't confuse having a career with having a life.”
“If I simply live the principles that appear to be truth for me, I will touch the lives of those I am destined to touch.”
“Love happened. She would have never thought that it could happen so rapidly. Love was something you worked at, and she had no doubt their relationship would take a lot of hard work and dedication. But it had simply happened. No explanation. No cataclysmic event or earth-shattering revelation brought on by some external event. It had simply happened.”

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