"I try to be a lot of things for the authors I work with - a careful reader, a helpful friend who also happens to be an experienced writer, a thoughtful editor, and a creative midwife."

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Kevin Sampsell

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“If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.”
“As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.”
“Most people don't form a self and then lead a life. They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.”
“When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things.”
“Patience is the best medicine.”

Source : First Frutes
“In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of science. New facts, new problems, new difficulties as they arise are accepted, solved, or removed by this theory; and its principles are illustrated by the progress and conclusions of every well established branch of human knowledge.”

Source : Alfred Russel Wallace (2016). “Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection: A Series of Essays”, p.42, Library of Alexandria
“The reason I really started running was for meditative purposes. I would pick some problem to have in my head while running.”
“Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”

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