"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."

-- Leslie Fiedler

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“Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.”
“People are trying to live freely outside of, or within a system that maybe for them on a day-to-day level isn't as free... I definitely think we're positively orientated.”
“Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.”

Source : James Earl Jones, Penelope Niven (1993). “James Earl Jones: Voices and Silences”, Scribner Book Company
“People say to me, â€˜How do I know if a word is real?â€™ You know, anybody whoâ€™s read a childrenâ€™s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.”
“As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.”
“Painting pictures is simply the official, the daily work, the profession, and in the case of the watercolours I can sooner afford to follow my mood, my spirits.”
“Wings are not only for birds; they are also for minds.Â Human potential stops at some point somewhere beyond infinity.”
“Plexi, plexi, bend don't shatter. Once you're broken, shape won't matter.”

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