"Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life."

-- Graydon Carter

“Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.”

Source : Sharon Creech (2003). “Walk Two Moons”, Harper Collins
“United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?”
“I try to ï¬nd clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, you're trying to understand your subject in the same way that you try to understand one of your friends, and that effort at understanding is always very imperfect.”
“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.”
“I was a horrible student! It just sort of evolved as I started playing. I guess I became a master of it when I declared myself a wordsmith or a... word-play guy. As soon as I declared it and started that affirmation, I just became it.”
“What is the character trying to say? Why? Be as specific as you can, using sense images that evoke something about the character. Try using the character's senses, even if the character is you.”

Source : Pat Pattison (2010). “Writing Better Lyrics”, p.17, Writer's Digest Books
“I guess none of the sides of my hyphen are particularly subtle cultures. But perhaps there is also a sense that these characters are all parentless - every character in this book is feral in some way - without any guidance in their upbringing. They find no choice but to seek refuge in extreme behaviors.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“He takes the greatest ornament from friendship, who takes modesty from it. [Lat., Maximum ornamentum amicitiae tollit, qui ex ea tollit verecudiam.]”

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