"There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before."

-- Terri Windling

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“Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail”

Source : Kathleen Raine (1989). “Selected Poems”, p.74, SteinerBooks
“Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers - six if one went to Harvard..”
“Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.”
“I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.”
“What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.”
“I know the responsibility that entails from telling a story. The one thing I despise the most is when I go to a movie and I see a whole bunch of lazy actors making me waste my time and money.”
“A husband should tell his wife everything that he is sure she will find out, and before anyone else does.”
“We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.”

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