"I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good."

-- Cathy Marie Buchanan

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“Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.”
“I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.”
“I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don't have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don't have to be a shrinking violet.”
“I think I'm developing a kind of subconscious loathing of the word 'franchise.' I just think of something that's packaged, something you can buy on a shelf and is immediately disposable. I don't know. It's a really weird word for me.”
“Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather than love, why greed and not generosity, why self-centred activity and not open total action? Why be mean when there are soaring mountains and flashing streams? Why jealousy and not love? Why?”
“No can be an anointed word. We cannot be saviors to all. We are servants, daughters, sons, and brides, but not saviors. There is only one Savior. We cannot have His job. We are called and allowed to rest. God is able to keep His world going, and in the meantime it is very important we do not do more than He is asking.”

Source : Heidi Baker (2014). “Birthing the Miraculous: The Power of Personal Encounters with God to Change Your Life and the World”, p.143, Charisma Media
“Don't fight your problem. Know that there is a solution.”
“You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.”

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