"You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read..."

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Source : Keri Hulme (2005). “The Bone People: A Novel”, p.348, LSU Press

Keri Hulme

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“If my body dies, let my body die, but do not let my country die.”
“When you're trying to coordinate four separate shows together, it's pretty Herculean.”
“The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?”
“I refuse to give into the sad reflex of French envy because this envy paralyzes our country.”
“Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1872). “Studies in Poetry and Philosophy”, p.333
“It takes nothing to encourage an artist.”
“The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.”
“Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling”

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