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“No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.”
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“I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.”
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“Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy. We sentimentalize children, but they know what's real and what's not. They understand metaphor and symbol. If children are different from us, they are more spontaneous. Grown-up lives have become overlaid with dross.”
Source : "The Paternal Pride of Maurice Sendak" by Bernard Holland, www.nytimes.com. November 8, 1987.
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“I try not to be too precious about my writing, and I try to be willing to walk away from it for a few hours when something's not working, to let things percolate a bit. I try not to hide myself away from life too much, because I think that's a risky thing for a writer to do.”
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“The tennis world is constantly changing. What's true today may be wrong tomorrow. If you don't make progress, others will and you will be overtaken.”
Source : "Why The Grand Slam Is No Major Deal To Serena Williams' Coach". Interview with Mark Hodgkinson, www.espn.com. August 26, 2015.
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“Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.”
Source : Howard Carter's Diary, November 5, 1922.
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“Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t.”
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“You can only give things up once they start to let you down.”
Source : Edward St Aubyn (2014). “The Patrick Melrose Novels: Picador Classic”, p.285, Pan Macmillan