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“We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.”
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“Art is a form of play rejoicing before the face of God.”
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“The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic...”
Source : Cressida Cowell (2017). “How To Train Your Dragon: How to Steal a Dragon's Sword”, p.20, Hachette UK
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“I never killed a man who didn't need it.”
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“The key of writing fiction isn't just to remove something that the reader or listener can easily imagine. It's not a matter of being coy, or withholding information. It's allowing for multiple possibilities, recognizing the complexity of human behavior, and making the world of a piece of fiction as marvelously confounding as the world we live in.”
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“My sense of view became tactile not colourful, immediate not distant. Something within arms' reach”
Source : Ryan Knighton (2007). “Cockeyed”, p.73, PublicAffairs
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“Mere lack of success does not discredit a method, for there are many things that determine and perpetuate our sanctified ways of doing things besides their success in reaching their proposed ends.”
Source : James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
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“Envy derives from insecurity.”
