"The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized."

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Source : Mary Caroline Richards (1989). “Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person”, p.74, Wesleyan University Press

Mary Caroline Richards

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“One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.”
“There is no tomorrow to remember if we donâ€™t do something today, and to live most fully today, we must do that which is of greatest importance. Let us not procrastinate those things which matter most.”
“It was a dangerous profession I had chosen ... because no one likes a funny kid. In fact, adults are scared silly of them and tend to warn children who act out that they are going to wind up in prison or worse. It is only when you grow up that they pay you vast sums of money to make them laugh.”
“For those who feel their lives are a grave disappointment to God, it requires enormous trust and reckless, raging confidence to accept that the love of Jesus Christ knows no shadow of alteration or change. When Jesus said, "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened," He assumed we would grow weary, discouraged, and disheartened along the way. These words are a touching testimony to the genuine humanness of Jesus. He had no romantic notion of the cost of discipleship. He knew that following Him was as unsentimental as duty, as demanding as love.”
“I wish I could have built without destroying things.”
“Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.”

Source : Molly Keane (1981). “Good behaviour”
“Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its life on place. Place is the crossroads of circumstance, the proving ground of, What happened? Who's here? Who's coming?...”
“I write plays and movies, I live and work at the borderline between word and image just as any cartoonist or illustrator does. I'm not a pure writer. I use words as the score for kinetic imagistic representations.”

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