"Protect your voice and your vision. If going on the Internet and reading Internet reviews is bad for you, donâ€™t do it. â€¦ Do what gets you to write and not what blocks you. â€¦ Donâ€™t take any guff off anybody."

-- Anne Rice

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“Everyone prepares for battle in his own way.”
“I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.”
“I am the only 'celebrity' to be public about my lung cancer.”
“I'm really fortunate that I've had some mega hits.”
“The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.”

Source : Jean Giraudoux (1964). “Collected Plays of Jean Giradoux”
“Light, Love, and Will - the one is as necessary as the other; the one is dangerous without the others. Light, Love, and Will are the three eternal, vital sources of the higher, truer, purer cosmic life.”

Source : Ameen Rihani (2016). “The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition”, p.183, Syracuse University Press
“It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.”

Source : Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.19, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Because it is gone you cannot say it will not return; even though you may sayÂ it has never yet returned-you cannot say thatÂ it will not. It is blasphemy to say a bit of metal has destroyed life, just as it is presumptuous to say that because life has disappeared it has been destroyed. I stood among the heaps of the dead and I knew-no, I felt that death is only a sound we make to signify the Thing we do not know.”

Source : Robert Leckie (2015). “Helmet For My Pillow [Illustrated Edition]”, p.301, Pickle Partners Publishing

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