"writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the day you lose it. Robert Frost called his work a lover's quarrel with the world. It's ongoing. It has neither a beginning nor an end. You don't have to worry about learning things. The fire of one's art burns all the impurities from the vessel that contains it."

-- James Lee Burke

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“What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!”
“Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress.”

Source : Emmeline Pankhurst (2015). “My Own Story: Top Biography”, p.2, 谷月社
“I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real.”
“Oneâ€™s relationship with money is lifelong, it colors oneâ€™s sense of identity, it shapes oneâ€™s attitude to other people, it connects and splits generations; money is the arena in which greed and generosity are played out, in which wisdom is exercised and folly committed. Freedom, desire, power, status, work, possession: these huge ideas that rule life are enacted, almost always, in and around money.”
“I never play characters that are like me because I'm a boring person. I wouldn't want to see me in a movie.”
“Invest in the human family. Invest in people. Build a little community of those you love and who love you.”
“I've been part of running a label since I was a kid, so I understand how it works. But the more and more I learn about it, the less and less interested I am in it.”
“Sometimes being a good mother gets in the way of being a good person.”

Source : Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey (1998). “A Woman of Independent Means”, p.193, Penguin

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