"Its like a hypnotist put everyone from Seattle into a collective trance. "You are getting sleepy, when you wake up you will want to live only in a Craftsman house, the year won't matter to you, all that will matter is that the walls will be thick, the windows tiny, the rooms dark, the ceilings low, and it will be poorly situated on the lot."

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Source : "Where'd You Go, Bernadette?". Book by Maria Semple, 2012.

Maria Semple

#Wall Quotes #Dark Quotes #Years Quotes

“I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a houseâ€¦love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.”

Source : "Stop Making Sense". Documentary, Music, 1984.
“I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.”

Source : Source: www.washingtontimes.com
“Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.”
“it is my conviction that the personality of the writer has nothing to do with the literate product of his mind. And publicity in this case embarrasses me because I am acutely conscious of how far short the book falls of the artistry I am struggling to achieve. It's like being caught half-dressed.”
“I try. I am trying. I was trying. I will try. I shall in the meantime try. I sometimes have tried. I shall still by that time be trying.”

Source : Diane Glancy at the 23rd Annual University of North Dakota Writers Conference, digital.undwritersconference.org. March 19, 1992.
“Naming can limit as well as empower.”
“Passion is the engagement of our soul with something beyond us, something that helps us put up with or fight against insurmountable odds, even at high risks, because it is all worth it.”

Source : Janet O. Hagberg (2002). “Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition”, p.300, Sheffield Publishing
“Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.”

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