"A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it."

-- Vita Sackville-West

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“From where you sit, it may seem that certain people should know better. People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. We each have different lessons to learn. We each take a different path to our lessons.”
“It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.”
“When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.”

Source : George Saintsbury (1950). “A Last Vintage: Essays and Papers”
“It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.”

Source : "Follow a lady's word: Betty White dispenses some relationship advice for the average male". Q&A, www.heraldextra.com. May 13, 2011.
“My songs are my hookers. I can't worry about how they are going to be treated; they just need to bring home the bacon.”
“None of us can help the things life has done to us. Theyâ€™re done before you realize it, and once theyâ€™re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what youâ€™d like to be, and youâ€™ve lost your true self forever.”

Source : Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.434, Oxford University Press on Demand
“Be a self-starter. Do it now! When you don't know how to do something, start. Beware of the paralysis of analysis. Be a person of action.”
“It is the mystery of the creative act that something other than our conscious self takes over.”

Source : Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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