"The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided."

-- Samuel Richardson

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“But what if Shakespeareâ€• and Hamletâ€• were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?”
“Can any rational person believe that the Bible is anything but a human document? We now know pretty well where the various books came from, and about when they were written. We know that they were written by human beings who had no knowledge of science, little knowledge of life, and were influenced by the barbarous morality of primitive times, and were grossly ignorant of most things that men know today.”
“Any kind of creativity is not settling down into a happy little space. I don't try to be mellow or anything. I think I have quite... my voice is what it is, no matter what I'm singing, it's always going to sound like me. There's not too far I could go. I sound like myself. I hope that I haven't put any boundaries on anything.”
“The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry, I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.”

Source : "Cynthia Nixon and 10 other celebrities who entered politics" by Lucy Todd, www.bbc.com. March 22, 2018.
“Women don't have an expiration date.”

Source : "Happy Birthday: Wendie Malick Turns 60!". Interview with Monica Rizzo, people.com. December 13, 2010.
“The world goes on as before, and it turns out that nobody else seems to to notice the unbearable lightness of being.”

Source : "Money And Class In America: Notes And Observations On Our Civil Religion" by Lewis H. Lapham, (Chapter 7, Descent Into The Mirror, p. 181), 1989.
“Don't worry about how pretty (the story) sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don't care. It's the people in your book that matter.”
“Stop competing on price; compete on value. Deliver total consumer solutions, rather than just your piece of the solution.”

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