"a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms."

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Source : Stella Benson (2012). “Living Alone”, p.16, tredition

Stella Benson

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“Stop thinking of what you intend to do. Stop thinking of what you have just done. Then, stop thinking that you have stopped thinking of those things. Then you will find the Now, the time that stretches eternal, and is really the only time there is.”

Source : Robin Hobb (2002). “Royal Assassin: The Farseer Trilogy”, p.647, Spectra
“Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.”
“Ignorance and credulous hope make the market for most proprietary remedies.”

Source : Collier's Weekly 7 October (1905)
“It is not brilliance or facility that is necessary, but the determination to bear and even enjoy the dull process of wading into one's own bad prose again, and one more time, and then once again, with the utmost concentration and taste, looking for opportunities to mine deeper.”
“Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.”

Source : David Cottrell (2009). “Monday Morning Mentoring: Ten Lessons to Guide You Up the Ladder”, p.11, Harper Collins
“The first person besides my mother who believed in me was a man whose last name I never knew. He was my boss, the manager of Swenson's Ice Cream shop.”
“There is nothing in the world more peaceful than apple - leaves with an early moon.”
“Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Stepping Westward”, p.40, Pan Macmillan

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