"When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you"

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Source : Gail Carson Levine (2013). “Writing Magic: Creating Stories That Fly”, p.1, Harper Collins

Gail Carson Levine

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“The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural catastrophe as never before. The century would create death, devastation and pollution as never before. Yet the century was now attached to the idea that man must take his conception of life out to the stars.”
“Remove any of your fear with faith. Trust the power of God to guide you.”
“The Millennium Declaration was a solemn pledge to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.”
“Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else and failing.”

Source : Quoted by Jean Cocteau in his acceptance speech to the Académie Française, October 20, 1955.
“I was sick of fast, aggressive music; I felt like I needed to make a poppy thing. But, right now, I feel like I need to make a Hawkwind/Sabbath record. It gets boring if you just do the same thing all the time.”
“But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.”
“To me, an airplane is a great place to diet.”
“Peace isnâ€™t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, itâ€™s an experience thatâ€™s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.”

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