"Lie. Put down on paper the most interesting lies you can imagine . . . and then make them plausible."

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Chris Bohjalian

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“It is possible to be in love with you just because of who you are.”

Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.113, Scholastic Inc.
“He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.”
“It's funny, though, with films, because you can incorporate a variety of elements, and sometimes that can work for you and sometimes I think it can work against you.”
“I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.”
“One day or another every athlete feels like taking it easy. He stops trying to exceed his limits, and thinks he can keep winning because of his lucky star, or the bad luck of his opponents. You must overcome this negative instinct, which affects all of us, and which is the only difference between the person who wins a race, and those who lose. This is the battle you have to fight every day of your life.”
“Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.”
“I desire before I leave the world, as my best legacy to my family,, my serious, solemn advice, to make choice of my God for their God. He has been my father's God, and the God of your Mother's predecessors. I solemnly charge you to make it your first care to seek after peace with God, and being reconciled, to make it your study to please God in all things.”
“Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.”

Source : Frances Wright (1831). “Course of Popular Lectures,”, p.132

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