"when you're so happy that you have to close your eyes when you smile so that your eyes don't jump out of your head"

-- Tori Kelly

“As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.”
“I'd never even looked at a pair of skis. I didn't even realise the boots were separate. I thought it was one whole thing.”
“There is nothing stronger than gentleness.”
“Intimacy, says the phenomenologist Gaston Bachelard, is the highest value. I resist this statement at first. What about artistic achievement, or moral courage, or heroism, or altruistic acts, or work in the cause of social change? What about wealth or accomplishment? And yet something about it rings true, finallyâ€”that what we want is to be brought into relationship, to be inside, within. Perhaps itâ€™s true that nothing matters more to us than that.”

Source : Mark Doty (2002). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon: On Objects and Intimacy”, p.6, Beacon Press
“A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.”

Source : John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket
“After nearly 15 minutes of soul searching, I have heard the call. Nation, I will seek the office of the president of the United States. I am doing it!”
“So I majored in Drama, did all the plays that were possible to do, skated through school in order to be in every production on stage or backstage in whatever capacity and I came to New York looking for work in the summers.”
“Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty-that in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?”

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