"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."

-- Mary Augusta Ward

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“I often think about how, if we were all placed in an apocalyptic situation, you'd realize quickly how stupid, petty things just don't matter anymore. Who you love is who you love, and it doesn't matter. Survival is your primary focus.”

Source : "Alycia Debnam-Carey on ‘The 100′ Season 3 and ‘Fear the Walking Dead’". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2016.
“Joy is peace dancing and peace is joy at rest.”
“All good poems are victories over something.”

Source : Stephen Dunn (2001). “Walking Light: Memoirs and Essays on Poetry”, p.86, BOA Editions, Ltd.
“Those who walk, run, or slide downhill eagerly would rather not think about the long, hard climb back up the hill again.”
“why can't we love the right people? what is so wrong with us that we rush into situations to which we are manifestly unsuited, which will hurt us and others? why are we given emotions which we cannot control and which move in exact contradiction to what we really want? we are walking conflicts, internal battles on legs.”

Source : Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.218, Penguin UK
“Holiday? Is like, what? I'm a hyperactive girl, so it may be boring for me to be on the beach doing nothing. I just need to find a place for three weeks and work but sleep in the morning, maybe write a little bit, have a glass of red wine. That's my perfect holiday.”
“It is not true that the legislator has absolute power over our persons and property. The existence of persons and property preceded the existence of the legislator, and his function is only to guarantee their safety.”
“A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.”

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