"There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write."

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Source : William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.106

William Makepeace Thackeray

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“I look for a sign. Where to go next. you never know when you'll get one. Even the most faithless among us are waiting to be proven wrong.”

Source : Jillian Lauren (2011). “Pretty: A Novel”, p.101, Penguin
“The more things you do, the more things you can do.”
“People start realising that I'm a responsible filmmaker and I'm not going to run away with the budget or do anything stupid. I think it probably depends on the subject matter and it depends on who's producing and all those things. My hope is that I'll be allowed to carry on making films.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“Give me a good script, and I'll be a hundred times better as a director.”
“Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie.”

Source : I. F. Stone (2009). “The Best of I.F. Stone”, p.47, PublicAffairs
“Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". It began to supersede deipnosophy as my favorite hobby.”

Source : "Beyond peace and quiet" by Sara Maitland, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2008.
“I cannae believe you let me touch you.â€ His voice grew hoarse. â€œI shall remember this for all my nights.â€ Tears speared into her eyes. Dearest Virgin Scribe, for all her life, she had waited for a moment like thisâ€¦. â€œDo not cry.â€ His thumb went to her cheeks. â€œBeautiful female of worth, do not cry.”
“One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.”

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