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You can't use up creativity. The more you use the more you have. - Maya Angelou

"Sylvia thought how all parents wanted an impossible life for their children - happy beginning, happy middle, happy ending. No plot of any kind. What uninteresting people would result if parents got their way." "Hindsight is twenty-twenty, just as they say." "Staying still was more work than moving; thinking too much was fatal." - The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler

W.H. Auden on Jane Austen, 1937: You could not shock her more than she shocks me; Beside her, Joyce seems innocent as grass. It makes me most uncomfortable to see An English spinster of the middle class Describe the amorous effects of "brass", Reveal so frankly and with such sobriety The economic basis of society.

jack kerouac

a love letter apologizes to itself - alok vaid-menon

a story for tomorrow. from gnarly bay on Vimeo .

Besides, the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. - Sirius, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. - Elie Wiesel

Cliff: "Life is hard, Pat, and children have to be told how hard life can be." Pat: "Why?" Cliff: "So they will be sympathetic to others. So they will understand that some people have it harder than they do and that a trip through this world can be a wildly different experience, depending on what chemicals are raging through one's mind." - The Silver Linings Playbook, Matthew Quick