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“The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and dusk, and unlike other trade the hours asleep are not time off.”
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“We must learn to recognize nature's truths even though we don't understand them, for some of those truths may still be beyond the ability of the human mind to comprehend. What we need is a compound prescription of humility, imagination, devotion to the truth and, above all, confidence in the eternal wisdom of nature.”
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“If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books and watch movies all day, everyday, for the rest of my life.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 
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“It is the duty of the ship's captain to make port, cost what it may.”
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“This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.”
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“Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.”
Source : "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.
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“Habit is a good thing for the human race. ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.”
Source : Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.197, Simon and Schuster
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“Expectations are just leftover praise. They are a blessing. If you didn't have the capability to meet them, they wouldn't exist.”
