"You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, 'We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.'"

-- Austin Kleon

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“I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without.”

Source : Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.46, Random House
“I can heal the scars on your body, but I canâ€™t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them”

Source : Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.285, Penguin
“No time is wasted time”
“The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.”
“If you make intense supplication and the timing of the answer is delayed, do not despair of it. His reply to you is guaranteed; but in the way He chooses, not the way you choose, and at the moment He desires, not the moment you desire.”
“The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit.”
“Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it.”

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