"I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies."

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Source : Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.17, University of Georgia Press

Sidney Lanier

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“Probably the TV show I've watched the most is 'How It's Made' on the History Channel. I could watch 24 hours of 'How It's Made' and never get bored.”

Source : "How Shane Carruth Constructs". Interview with Paul Dallas, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2013.
“Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to play speed chess.”
“Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at work, then the most unnatural behavior, which only appears in late stages or abnormal cases, would be to behave as separate Egos. Under normal circumstances they work in common, each a meaningfully functioning part of the whole.”

Source : "The Individual Psychology of Alfred Adler" edited by Heinz L. Ansbacher, (p. 11), 1954.
“I remember I had had one woman who had three or four kids, and some of them were having problems. I said, 'Maybe you could go write somewhere else, away from your house.' And sure enough, all kinds of wonderful stuff emerged. She was keeping too much charge of herself because she couldn't stop being a mother when she was in the house. You have to find your own way of letting loose, if you're one of those people.”
“Frankly, to be honest, I hadn't worked for two years before 'Murphy Brown.' It's a nice illusion now to think of all of us as terribly successful and talented people at the top of our profession, but that's hindsight. I had to pray for a job like this.”

Source : "'Murphy Brown' interview". Interview with Alan Carter, ew.com. May 15, 1992.
“I like marriage. The idea.”
“All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.”

Source : Sophocles, Hugh Lloyd-Jones (1996). “Sophocles: Fragments”, p.33, Harvard University Press
“But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.”

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