"I'll tell you something. Once I was very fond of a poem by Emily Dickinson or somebody. I only remember one line of it, but it goes, 'The soul selects her own society.' I used to tell it to everybody. Once I quoted it to a friend of mine, and he said, 'Maybe, but the body gets thrown into bed with the goddamnedest people."

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Source : Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

Peter S. Beagle

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“There's no leaving Edinburgh, No shifting it around: it stays with you, always.”
“When I read about myself and how writers have focused on negative stuff, it hurts my feelings.”
“If you only say one prayer in a day make it Thank You.”
“In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend.”
“Everyone talks about building a relationship with your customer. I think you build one with your employees first.”
“You lose nothing by being polite. The answer is 'No', but please say it politely and give the reasons. ... Explain to me why 'No'. Don't change 'No' to 'Yes'. Don't be a fool. If there was a good reason why it is 'No', it must remain 'No', but the man must be told politely.”
“I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.”

Source : "Why Is Sam Taylor-Wood Smiling?" by Elisa Lipsky-Karasz, www.harpersbazaar.com. March 23, 2010.
“The ascendancy over men's minds of the ruins of the stupendous past, the past of history, legend and myth, at once factual and fantastic, stretching back and back into ages that can but be surmised, is half-mystical in basis. The intoxication, at once so heady and so devout, is not the romantic melancholy engendered by broken towers and mouldered stones; it is the soaring of the imagination into the high empyrean where huge episodes are tangled with myths and dreams; it is the stunning impact of world history on its amazed heirs.”

Source : Rose Macaulay (Dame.), Roloff Beny, Constance Babington Smith (1977). “Roloff Beny interprets in photographs Pleasure of ruins”

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