"Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once."

-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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“The time comes to every dog when it ceases to care for people merely for biscuits or bones, or even for caresses, and walks out of doors. When a dog really loves, it prefers the person who gives it nothing, and perhaps is too ill ever to take it out for exercise, to all the liberal cooks and active dog-boys in the world.”

Source : "The Confessions of a Lost Dog" by Frances Power Cobbe, London: Griffith & Farran, (pp. 15-16), 1867.
“It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day.”

Source : Matthew Henry (1866). “Directions for daily communion with God, in 3 discourses, and The communicant's companion”, p.81
“They're implementing what was the strategy of Al Qaeda, which was to have attacks of different levels simultaneously. ... So the idea is, on the one hand you have these spectacular attacks that take months to plan, and others like Reda Hame, a French national, who went to Syria and was there for about a week, given a couple of days of target practice and one day of encryption training, sent back and arrested almost immediately.”
“I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.”

Source : "Q&A: David Gilmour". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. February 21, 2006.
“There were about ten years of trying, failing, trying again, suffering rejection, etc. My first published book, 'Story of a Girl', was the fourth book I wrote.”
“The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.”
“Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.”
“When I was a baby, my mom used to have a dance school, and she used to teach classes there. We didn't have money for a babysitter, so she always brought me with her to the dancing school. Back then, I was already watching and listening to Michael Jackson for a long time.”

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