"I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader."

-- Geraldine Brooks

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“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
“Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.”
“I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.”
“It's very powerful if you can home in on, and really trust, intuition and its strength. Most men have shunned that in so many ways that they end up squaring off the circle of life.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“My heart always timidly hides itself behind my mind. I set out to bring down stars from the sky, then, for fear of ridicule, I stop and pick little flowers of eloquence.”
“Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each otherâ€™s ambit, they bind themselves tight with the force of their own torsion. And this same torsion can, in the course of things, bundle the resulting cord back upon itself, ravelling it up into a skein, returning to the point of its beginning.”
“Life is difficult. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths. It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult-once we truly understand and accept it-then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters.”

Source : M. Scott Peck (2002). “The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth”, p.15, Simon and Schuster
“Sylvieâ€™s knowledge, like Izzie's, was random yet far-ranging, â€˜The sign that one has acquired oneâ€™s learning from reading novels rather than an educationâ€¦”

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