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“How long do we live in the fictions of our past? And how do we convince anyone that who we write is not necessarily who we are?”
Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
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“I love characters that are very layered and complex. It's more exciting and different than any simple role- plus, I love a good challenge.”
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“Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.”
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“The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist' compared with biography, and to both cries one should make the same answer: that freedom to invent outweighs loyalty to mere happenstance, the accidents of history; and good readers should know how to filter a general applicability from a particular story.”
Source : Tom Shippey (2014). “The Road to Middle-earth: Revised and Expanded Edition”, p.304, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Romeo was cute …†“Cute?†Alessandro rolled his eyes. “What kind of man is cute?†“… and an excellent dancer …†“Romeo had feet of lead! He said so himself!†“… but most importantly,†I concluded, “he had nice hands!”
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“Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self, it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the”
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“Geoff Hurst had a hammer in his left boot and good left feet are like bricks of gold.”
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“When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right.”
Source : "Collective Ownership of Code and Text: A Conversation with Ward Cunningham, Part II". Interview with Bill Venners, www.artima.com. December 1, 2003. 
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“To be a deep listener, one of the first things we have to do is give up the need and the desire to give advice. Knowing answers does not require stating them; there are times when offering answers is not helpful, as when a person is in the middle of their own learning process.”
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“If you don't live in the world of choosing, you live in the world of excusing.”
