"I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame."

-- Dawid Janowski

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“Being a Southerner, Im interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting.”
“I do think that's one of the reasons that acting appealed to me so much: the idea of letting go of control in a controlled environment. Being able to go through the range of intense emotions and jump off the cliff, metaphorically, but in a creative way, and in a way where the structure was really solid.”
“I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.”
“Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel.”
“I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.”

Source : "Claude Debussy: His Life and Works". Book by Léon Vallas, p. 226, 1933.
“I become more and more inclined to sink the minister in the man, and abandon my present calling in toto as a profession... to create a living religion in landscape painting.”
“Your body has natural healing capacities that nobody in the field of medicine can pretend ultimately to understand.”
“[Jesus] matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity." (Dallas Willard in Ruthless Trust - Brennan Manning)”

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