"I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another."

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Anais Nin

#One Direction Quotes #Giving Quotes #Joy Quotes

“I've never regretted saying no to anything, or finishing something. When I'm in the middle of doing something I love, I can have a better idea, and I'll go, "Oh God, I can't finish this." Maybe I've got some sort of disorder.”
“An artist must either give up art or develop.”

Source : pauline kael (1965). “i lost it at the movies”
“People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.”
“Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.”
“I took my father on a coach trip last summer.We were halfway there when the driver lost control of the coach, it flew down a hill around a bend and crashed through a brick wall. I wasn't hurt but luckily my father had the presence of mind to kick my head in.”
“We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists.”
“It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.193, Delacorte Press
“A novel which has been too much worked over often goes flat, and no amount of laborious revision can take the place of careful planning beforehand.”

Source : Sheila Kaye-Smith (1937). “Three Ways Home”

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