"My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head."

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William Butler Yeats

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“Almost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak.”
“Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God.”
“Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.”
“One of those flash epiphanies of travel, the realization that worlds you'd love vibrantly exist outside your ignorance of them. The vitality of many lives you know nothing about. The breeze lifting a blue curtain in a doorway billows just the same whether you are lucky enough to observe it or not. Travel gives such jolts. I could live in this town, so how is it that I've never been here before today?”

Source : "Frances Mayes travels the globe (sort of), not forgetting about Italy" by Jeanne Cooper, www.sfgate.com. April 20, 2006.
“I am a worker, a tombstone mason, anxious to pleace averyburies and jully glad when Christmas comes his once ayear.”
“I need a soul mate so that I can be who I am, naked. I want there to be someone who picks up my heavy, bleeding heart and takes it somewhere safe and warm.”
“Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.”
“I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.”

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