"Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?"

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Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.373, Simon and Schuster

Amy Hempel

“You ask whether I am going over to the history of science... no, I am not as old as that.”
“Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.”
“There are manifold tones of mental life, or, in other words, our psychic life may be lived at different heights, now nearer to action, now further removed from it, according to the degree of our attention to life.”
“Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us.”

Source : "A Library of American Literature From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time". Book by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Volume 3, 'A Duty to Posterity' (pp. 177-178), 1892.
“When you teach, it's sometimes necessary to consciously not write for a month or two - and then pick a time in the future to sink back in. It makes you less frustrated and more in control. I do best when I give myself breaks and come back hungry.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.”
“He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.”
“We are most creative and sense other possibilities that transcend our ordinary experience when we leave ourselves behind.”

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