"To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up."

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Source : Gene Stratton-Porter (2013). “The Essential Gene Stratton-Porter Collection”, p.33, eBookIt.com

Gene Stratton-Porter

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“What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me.”
“My mother used to play nothing but Billie Holiday.”
“I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.”
“An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole garment in which the actor hides himself is made of small externals of observation fitted to his conception of a role.”

Source : Eleanor Robson Belmont (1957). “The Fabric of Memory”
“Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.”

Source : R. Murray Schafer (1977). “The Tuning of the World”, Alfred A. Knopf
“If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.”
“Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.”
“I'm not as reckless as I used to be. You know, when I was little.”

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