"Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found."

-- Robert Fulghum

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“Greatness comes from living with purpose and passion.”
“Deeply disturbing in a way that only the most honest stories are, YACCUB is a fiercely written, daring journey through America's urban wilderness and into the souls of our forgotten brothers. But Wrath James White hasn't forgotten about them--and after reading this book, neither will you.”
“When you are raised, as John Edwards was, in a small town like Robbins, North Carolina, you get to understand poverty and unemployment, or inadequate health care, first-hand by seeing the daily struggles of your friends and neighbors.”
“The core of character lies in each individual story person's ability to care about something; to feel implicitly or explicitly that something is important.”

Source : Dwight V. Swain (2012). “Creating Characters: How to Build Story People”, p.1, University of Oklahoma Press
“Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.”

Source : Henry Latham Doherty (1923). “Principles and ideas for Doherty men: papers, addresses and letters”
“They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing.”
“Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.”
“Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimerâ€™s or dementia, and I donâ€™t remember anyone that youâ€™ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie.”

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