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“I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.”
Source : Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
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“People think it's suspect and self-indulgent to make art, and I don't think that's true. Some people think you should be busy making something that you can sell in the marketplace, and if nobody wants to buy it, it must be crap. And that's not true.”
Source : "Dana Spiotta on living the creative life". Interview with Jacket Copy, latimesblogs.latimes.com. August 3, 2011.
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“She was not an adventure, she was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.”
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“Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.”
Source : "Fictional character: Narrator". "Sans Soleil", www.imdb.com. 1983.
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“To think! All that power and he wasn't even rich!”
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“There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.”
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“She breathed. "This is lovely." It was for Adam, not Gansey, but she saw Gansey glance over his shoulder at her.”
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“In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our running.”