"No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already."

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Source : Sylvia Brownrigg (2011). “Pages for You”, p.110, Pan Macmillan

Sylvia Brownrigg

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“The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.”
“Maybe [artistry] doesn't have to be quite so full of anguish if you never happened to believe, in the first place, that the most extraordinary aspects of your being came from you. But maybe if you just believed that they were on loan to you from some unimaginable source for some exquisite portion of your life to be passed along when you're finished ... it starts to change everything.”
“I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance in this subjective sense of realness: There clearly is a phenomenology of "hyperrealness", for example during religious experiences or under the influence of certain psychoactive substances.”

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“Potential is the good of life -- action the secret key.”
“I personally feel I still have so much to learn as a writer; each novel is better than the one before, just because I'm getting better at it.”

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“My future does not depend on me but on any decision by the Togo federation.”
“To work hard and then loaf; to know hardship and then luxury, to learn about society and then color it with a dash of the wilds-is there anything quite so fine?”
“I mean, like the rest of America, I wasn't really into politics until Obama went into office, so it's all kind of new to me, but I'm excited about it. I've been watching a lot of campaign ads, doing a lot of research for it. It's so different, it'll be interesting.”

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