"The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same."

-- David Knopfler

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“We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.”
“If you rely exclusively on the advice of others, you may make terrible mistakes. Your heart knows what you need. Other people have other agendas.”
“There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.”
“Let the die be cast. [Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)”
“Bad as "independence" is, the main fault of the Federal Reserve System - an admirable system if conducted in the public interest - is that too much power and control rests in the hands of people whose private interests are directly affected by the Federal Reserves' actions.”
“Writing essays and teaching composition have helped me immensely in writing poetry, because they've forced me to focus on the structure of ideas.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.
“Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shapeâ€”and words help to define those thoughts. Thatâ€™s why wizards usually use words to help them with their spells. Words provide a sort of insulation as the energy of magic burns through a spell casterâ€™s mind.”
“I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.”

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