"Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays."

-- Nicholson Baker

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“I'd wanted to be [an actress] all my life.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Once upon a time... a long time ago... things that happened once perhaps but have been talked about for so long that nobody really knows. And underneath all the bits that people have added the magic swords and lamps they're all about one thing - the good hero fighting the giant or the witch or the wicked uncle. Good against bad. Good against evil.”

Source : Susan Cooper (2010). “The Dark Is Rising: The Complete Sequence”, p.81, Simon and Schuster
“That I am your heart's secret fills me with song. I wish I could sing of you here in my cage. You are my heart's hidden poem. I reread you, memorize you every moment we're apart.”

Source : Laura Whitcomb (2005). “A Certain Slant of Light”, p.156, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have learned that frustration is allowed and talking it through is necessary.”
“Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.”
“Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.”
“A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.”
“If you don't know,say so. It's a simple statement that enhances credibility.”

Source : W Brett Wilson (2012). “Redefining Success: Still Making Mistakes”, p.97, Penguin Canada

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