"I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them, showing them how to act rather than telling them. And I suggested that they should do the same with one another: that they didn't need a book of rules to tell them what to do and what not to do, but experience and action."

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Source : Robert Jackson Bennett (2014). “City of Stairs”, p.429, Broadway Books

Robert Jackson Bennett

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“Pretty, pretty please, don't you ever ever feel like you're less than, less than perfect.”

Source : Song: Perfect
“When you have cancer, it's like you enter a new time zone: the Cancer Zone. Everything in the Tropic of Cancer revolves around your health or your sickness. I didn't want my whole life to revolve around cancer. Life came first; cancer came second.”
“I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
“Most of the time, we respond to life without taking a moment”
“Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1960). “Applied imagination: principles and procedures of creative problem-solving”
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.”
“The model is just one element of the photograph. There's also the location, the light - all that junk. It helps if the girl is really good-looking, but a girl can be not super good-looking and it'd still be a really good photograph. I ask people to send some photos of where they live if that's where I'm shooting. I go for shabby places over too-nice places, because most of these girls are going to look better if they're not made to look rich.”
“The art of concentrating strength at one point, forcing a breakthrough, rolling up and securing the flanks on either side, and then penetrating like lightning deep into his rear, before the enemy has time to react.”

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