"It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it."

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Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.173, Litres

Amelia Barr

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“Cities are for people. A city is where people come to work and raise their families and to spend their money and to walk in the evening. It is not a traffic corridor.”
“We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger....”
“While the goal of all movies is to entertain, the kind of film in which I believe goes one step further. It compels the spectator to examine one facet or another of his own conscience. It stimulates thought and sets the mental juices flowing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to destroy joy.”
“Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.”
“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”

Source : T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.”

Source : Roxane Gay (2014). “Bad Feminist: Essays”, p.7, Harper Collins
“The primary subject of fiction is and has always been human emotion, values, and beliefs.”

Source : John Gardner (2010). “The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers”, p.14, Vintage

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