"I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element spearately and never looked to see that they never did fit together properly"

-- Erin Morgenstern

#Together Quotes #Elements Quotes #Saws Quotes

“The world says that time is money, but I say that money is time. In order to earn enough money to satisfy his desires, one must sacrifice inordinate amounts of time. For me, that sacrifice is too great.”
“The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.”
“Nothing is too small to matter.”
“God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?”
“Transgression is a quest for solitude”

Source : Adam Phillips (2017). “In Writing”, p.85, Penguin UK
“We have roots that grow towards each other underground. And when all the pretty blossom has fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.”
“In the end, I get a really good song, and in the end, I get the hits. Yeah, I'm that good.”
“After all, the world is not a stage-not to me: nor a theatre: nor a show-house of any sort. And art, especially novels, are not little theatres where the reader sits aloft and watches...and sighs, commiserates, condones and smiles. That's what you want a book to be: because it leaves you so safe and superior, with your two-dollar ticket to the show. And that's what my books are not and never will be...Whoever reads me will be in the thick of the scrimmage, and if he doesn't like it if he wants a safe seat in the audience-let him read someone else.”

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