"If the Internet has given us anything, it's some idea of how much psychosis goes undiagnosed."

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Source : Jan Burke (2012). “Disturbance: An Irene Kelly Novel”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

Jan Burke

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“For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing.”

Source : Carol Bly (1990). “The passionate, accurate story: making your heart's truth into literature”
“The walls of people hardly affected me. You closed your mind to such things.”
“The love we most cherish will, of necessity, bring us pain. Because that love is like the setting of a body with broken bones. But I want to stage the setting. I want to direct all scenes.”

Source : Rebecca Wells (2004). “Divine secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood: a novel”
“There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate. â€”MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE”
“I'm not in love. It's a crush which is why it hurts. Crushes crush. Otherwise they'd be called awesomes. "I have an awesome on him.”
“Introduction To Poetry I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide or press an ear against its hive. I say drop a mouse into a poem and watch him probe his way out, or walk inside the poem's room and feel the walls for a light switch. I want them to waterski across the surface of a poem waving at the author's name on the shore. But all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it. They begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.”

Source : Billy Collins (2014). “The Apple That Astonished Paris: Poems”, p.58, University of Arkansas Press
“Courbet comes in 1849 with the intention of overthrowing past art and constructing it anew. While he speaks only of realism, of which he proclaims himself the messiah, his pictures show pre-eminently those qualities which are learned in the museums.”

Source : Jules Breton (1892). “The Life of an Artist: An Autobiography”
“Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists.”

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