"Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair."

-- R. D. Laing

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“Writing is an art but also a craft, which means it's a job. I don't teach. This is how the groceries get on the table. You sometimes make creative sacrifices to get the job done. All that said, I'm looking forward to getting out of the two-book-a-year schedule I'm on and to getting some self-indulgence going.”
“There are areas using what's called the "checkerboard strategy." They are different cities where you can move around the "checkerboard," doing things you can't do in every square, that you can do in some of them, building a mosaic of these kinds of practices. There are about 400 cable television networks, for example, that are publicly owned. That's a big fight for big private companies. In some areas, this is a political struggle, in some it's conventional common sense.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“To kill nothing, that is love.”
“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
“The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.”
“There are estimated to be fewer that 50 prodigious savants worldwide. If we were brought together, it would be disappointing in the sense of us having different abilities. One thing that would make me feel united with them would be the sense of us having grown up in isolation.”
“Petty laws breed great crimes.”

Source : Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.260, Ouida
“I'm really trying to just keep this internal, and be faithful to the story and the characters, and keep 99.9% of my brain there, serving the story. It's a great network. It's the golden network of cable, so it's totally an honor to be there and tell this story, but I try not to think about anything beyond that.”

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