"I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot."

-- Virginia Woolf

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“In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.”
“There's probably a lot of people wondering if I can play.”
“Every midwife knows that not until a motherâ€™s womb softens from the pain of labor will a way unfold and the infant find that opening to be born. Oh friend! There is treasure in your heart, it is heavy with child. Listen. All the awakened ones, like trusted midwives are saying, 'welcome this pain. It opens the dark passage of Grace.”
“If you're a writer, you don't serve genres. Genres serve you. Like, if you're writing a science fiction story set on a spaceship, you don't have to have someone thrown out an airlock.”

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“Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.”

Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
“Aâ€”risâ€”ta?â€ Degan asked, sounding horse. â€œWhat is it?â€ â€œA rat bit me,â€ she said, once again shocked by her own rasping voice. â€œJasper does that ifâ€”â€ Gaunt coughed and hacked. After a moment, he spoke again. â€œIf he thinks youâ€™re dead or too weak to fight.â€ â€œJasper?â€ â€œI call him that, but Iâ€™ve also named the stones in my cell.â€ â€œI only counted mine,â€ Arista said. â€œTwo hundred and thirty-four,â€ Degan replied instantly. â€œI have two hundred and twenty-eight.â€ â€œDid you count the cracked ones as two?â€ â€œNo.”
“Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.”
“Zen, in its essence is the art of seeing into the nature of one's own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom. By making us drink right from the fountain of life it liberates us from all the yokes under which we finite beings are usually suffering in this world.”

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