"Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it."

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Ben Okri

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“I remember at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, Shaq always wanted me to show him steps over and over.”
“The Lord will never forsake or abandon anyone, You may abandon him, but he will not abandon you. You never need to feel that you are alone.”
“My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.”

Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). “Bayonet! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences”, Butternut & Blue
“Don't you know? We're connected by an invisible chain. It's very long, very light. But also very strong. It can't rust. Can't break. And the only thing that can sever it is if you ever stop loving me.”
“Leadership is not about forcing your will on others. It's about mastering the art of letting go.”

Source : Phil Jackson, Hugh Delehanty (2013). “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”, p.218, Penguin
“I wanted to create a game (EarthBound) with real characters; characters whom players would recognize in the people around them.”
“People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.”

Source : "Reviving the love Labour's lost" by Jackie Ashley, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2003.
“I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall.”

Source : Source: deadline.com

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