"Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?"

-- Mary Chapin Carpenter

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“There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.”
“Each person is an enigma. You're a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.”
“In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in a forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero whoâ€™s usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as a straw, and away he goes (donâ€™t worry about the gender), cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and the enchanted stream, and by and by (we hope) heâ€™ll find the treasure.”

Source : Jeanette Winterson (2013). “The Powerbook”, p.155, Random House
“I don't need to convince anybody that I know kung fu, but maybe somebody needs to know that I really can act, without doing a Chinese accent or a funny walk.”
“When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.”
“I was the first athlete, from a training standpoint, with Adidas to have their own signature shoe.”
“And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a rosy circle drawn around the verb 'to love.' A kiss is a message too intimate for the ear, infinity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower, secular communication with an aftertaste of heaven, the pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.”

Source : Edmond Rostand (1995). “Cyrano de Bergerac”, Talonbooks Limited
“Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye.”

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