"Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness."

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Source : Kristin Cashore (2009). “Graceling”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kristin Cashore

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“In the United States, many people said you can't have folk music in the United States because you don't have any peasant class. But the funny thing was, there were literally thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people who loved old time fiddling, ballads, banjo tunes, blues played on the guitar, spirituals and gospel hymns. These songs and music didn't fit into any neat category of art music nor popular music nor jazz. So gradually they said well let's call it folk music.”
“And I can just see that sometimes the technique is blasting powder rather than steady struggle.”
“In America, getting on in the world means getting out of the world we have known before.”
“How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.”
“Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.”

Source : Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.40, Simon and Schuster
“If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.”
“The only way I can experience my life as meaningless is to work as hard as I possibly can to tell myself it has no meaning. At a deeper level of reality, my life can't help but have meaning, because everything is continually unfolding, and I am connected into that unfolding in ways that I can't even imagine.”

Source : Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.11, Berrett-Koehler Publishers
“Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.”

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