"I've been getting into Nick Drake lately, the folk singer. Sad, gorgeous stuff."

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Anthony Doerr

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“The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.”
“Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?”
“Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.”

Source : "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 01, 1994.
“Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense”
“By focusing on positive, healthy motivations and letting the more negative ones pass, you can purify the source of you imaginative power.”
“We are minor in everything but our passions.”

Source : Elizabeth Bowen (1938). “The death of the heart”, Viking Pr
“The great background question about the Labour governments of the sixties is whether with a stronger leader they could have gripped the country's big problems and dealt with them. How did it happen that a cabinet of such brilliant, such clever and self-confident people achieved so little? In part, it was the effect of the whirling court politics demonstrated by 'In Place of Strife'.”

Source : Andrew Marr (2009). “A History of Modern Britain”, p.268, Pan Macmillan
“Purpose is the quality we choose to shape our lives around.”

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