"It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know."

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Source : Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.756, Bloomsbury Publishing

Susanna Clarke

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“There's a danger in Hollywood of becoming self-obsessed.”
“Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing.”

Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2010). “The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts”, p.32, Vintage
“False encouragement is a kind of theft: it steals time, energy, and motivation a person could put toward some other purpose.”

Source : Sam Harris (2013). “Lying”, p.17, Four Elephants Press
“I recall feeling an almost delicious terror when one day I found myself alone in the midst of tall June grasses that grew high as my head. But here the secret working of self consciousness is almost too entangled with the things of the past for me to explain it.”
“Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.”
“The faster you go, the idler you get.”
“I read once that the voice is a mirror of our inner being. I can very much relate to that because, when you sing, you feel very exposed. You feel like you can’t hide anything. But then it also works the other way round and, when we work on our voice, our inner being also changes.”
“I could croak with no warning, and the only tragedy anyone would experience would be showing up on the last day of my estate sale simply to discover that all remaining items had copious amounts of dog hair on them.”

Source : Laurie Notaro (2011). “It Looked Different on the Model: Epic Tales of Impending Shame and Infamy”, p.64, Villard

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