"Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression."

-- James A. Michener

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“The one thing I can tell you is that you wont survive for yourself. I know because I would never have come this far. A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. Breathe it into being and coax it along with words of love. Offer it each phantom crumb and shield it from harm with your body. As for me my only hope is for eternal nothingness and I hope it with all my heart.”
“The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.”
“And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in.”

Source : Jane Austen (2013). “Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition”, p.141, Harvard University Press
“And life goes on, which seems kind of strange and cruel when you're watching someone die.”
“Anything that you think is wild or fun, or can't wait to see or show your friends, go for it.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Whoever has skill in music is of good temperament and fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools.”
“As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.”
“Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.”

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