"Twenty years ago I might have hired a professional listener, but somewhere along the way I had lost faith in the talking cure. A genteel fraud in my view."

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Ian Mcewan

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“All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.”
“Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.”
“I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.”
“I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself.”

Source : Interview with Michelle Zoromski, www.ign.com. November 5, 2002.
“Get in touch with yourself. The fountain of creativity begins with the stream of conscious thought flowing inside you. Open the floodgate and creative ideas come rushing out.”
“I was born in Detroit, in an all black neighborhood.”
“Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.”

Source : Christopher Cokinos (2009). “Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds”, p.12, Penguin
“You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it.”

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