"Once upon a time, my mother lived in the posh downtown of Homs, Syria. She described my grandfather as a king in a storybook, atop a horse, wearing a didashah and pointing a long arm."

-- Mona Simpson

#Mother Quotes #Horse Quotes #Kings Quotes

“I generally find an affinity with a lot of the people I play and I suppose if I didn't feel an affinity for them then they wouldn't be particularly good performances.”
“I have a weird vision of relationships because my parents have known each other since second grade, and they got married right out of college.”
“After some time passed in studying - and even imitating - the works of others, I would recommend the student to endeavour to be original, and to remember that originality should not be undiscovered plagiarism.”
“Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins”
“If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.”
“Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.”
“If any of [my stories] succeed in causing their readers to feel pleasantly uncomfortable when walking along a solitary road at nightfall, or sitting over a dying fire in the small hours, my purpose in writing them will have been attained.”

Source : M. R. James (2011). “Collected Ghost Stories”, p.406, OUP Oxford
“You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.”

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