"We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images."

-- John Gardner

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“Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed portions of chicken layer's mash, and the sweepings of racing stables, packing the mixture in little bags and selling them in health food shops.”
“If a therapist is feeling insecure in therapy, a lot of therapists will try to sort of push that aside to try to do the therapy. Instead, we would ask people to get with that feeling of insecurity, because after all, the client is being asked to do the same thing. It has a kind of a quality of two human beings in the same situation, really, working through these psychological processes. And yeah, you hired me; I'm working for you as a therapist. But I'm not up here and you're down there. And what you're struggling with, at other times and with other areas I'm struggling with.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I am essence of Rose Solitude my cheeks are laced with cognac my hips sealed with five satin nails I carry dreams and romance of new fools and old flames between the musk of fat and the side pocket of my mink tongue.”

Source : Jayne Cortez (2002). “Jazz fan looks back”, Hanging Loose Pr
“Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.”

Source : "Managing". Book by Harold Geneen, 1984.
“Gradually I began to intellectually reject some of the delusionally influenced lines of thinking which had been characteristic of my orientation. This began, most recognizably, with the rejection of politically-oriented thinking as essentially a hopeless waste of intellectual effort.”

Source : "John F. Nash Jr. - Biographical". "Les Prix Nobel" ("The Nobel Prizes 1994") edited by Tore Frängsmyr, Nobel Foundation, Stockholm, www.nobelprize.org. 1995.
“I do not believe that a dog can be cured by a psychiatrist, but I think some owners could be helped by one.”

Source : Barbara Woodhouse (1984). “No Bad Dogs: The Woodhouse Way”, p.126, Simon and Schuster
“Time will tell. Time is always telling. Time never stops telling,”

Source : "Questlove: ‘Hip-Hop Has Failed Black America’" by Cynthia Dagnal-Myron, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2014.
“I love Nautilus and stretching. The results are immediate, and that gives me the motivation to continue.”

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