"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."

-- Alice Walker

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“Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.”
“There is no idea so stupid or hackneyed that a sufficiently-talented writer can't get a good story out of it.”
“For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed upon both sides, it somehow failed to bring about either the reformation or the ruin of humankind: and after the conclusion of the murdering and general breakage, the world went on pretty much as it has done after all other wars, with a vague notion that a deal of time and effort had been unprofitably invested, and a conviction that it would be inglorious to say so.”

Source : James Branch Cabell (2017). “Figures of Earth: A Comedy of Appearances”, p.155, Wildside Press LLC
“Hes gone. Hes just gone.”
“You don't wait 30 minutes before a game to tell a guy he's traded.”
“I always feel like everything I shoot is a student project and nobody else knows about it. I forget, in the moment, that other people will see it.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Whatever you think is delusion.”

Source : Dainin Katagiri (1988). “Returning to Silence”, Shambhala Publications
“I was studying the impacts of fishing on ocean life, while the places that I loved so much continued to decline: less and smaller fish, less corals, and more microbes. I found myself writing the obituary of nature with increasing precision. Unsatisfied and frustrated, I felt like a doctor telling the patient how she is going to die, with excruciating detail. If I were that patient, I would have fired myself and looked for a doctor who would look for a solution.”

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