"When someone refuses to tell me a certain piece of information, it only makes me that much more determined to find out the truth. I hate being ignorant. For me, a question unanswered is like a thorn in my side"

-- Christopher Paolini

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“She has her own glamour, Willy lad. All poets do, all the bards and artists, all the musicians who truly take the music into their own hearts. They all straddle the border of Faerie, and they see into both worlds. Not dependably into either, perhaps, but that uncertainty keeps them honest and at a distance.”
“Iâ€™m sure you gathered this by now: I just do what I want. Have I made out with chicks? Hell yeah. Did I think it was awesome? Hell yeah. I wouldnâ€™t call myself bi. Like, if I didnâ€™t eat meat for a week, it doesnâ€™t make me a vegetarian. So I like people, and thatâ€™s just it. I like people.”
“I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.”
“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.”
“But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough And pressed at midnighht in some public place Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.”
“Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.”

Source : Tobias Smollett, Sir Walter Scott (1835). “Select works of Tobias Smollett ...: With a memoir of the life and writings of the author”, p.24
“Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world.”

Source : Archibald MacLeish (1968). “A continuing journey”
“It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar.”

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