"I write as if to save somebodyâ€™s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them."

-- Clarice Lispector

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“For me, half the joy of achieving has been the struggle and the fight, the pitting myself against the world and all its competition - and winning.”
“It is like a dream. I didn't sleep for two nights because I was under so much pressure. That elusive medal is probably what has kept me going. I had none of the self-doubts which have bothered me in the past. I was totally positive.”
“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
“Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. t's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.”
“They like to tell us that it is important to speak the truth, but it has been my experience that real happiness lies in having people tell you what you want to believe, usually not the same thing at all, and if you have to stub your toe on the truth later, so be it.”
“Just as I came out into the rue, an omnibus came by - pas complet, so I sprang in, without that prayer and fasting which should chasten the mind before risking it in a French omnibus.”

Source : Susan Hale (1918). “Letters of Susan Hale”
“More and more of our imports are coming from overseas”
“Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?”

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