For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. - Lois McMaster Bujold

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I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle. "

Lois McMaster Bujold

For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.

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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

Action, Correct, Lead, Understanding

The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

Beautiful, Hope, Men, Real, Unforgivable

Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

Blessing, Curse, Point Of View, View, Views

A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

First Impression, Matter, Sight, Stunning

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I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.

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Jean-Louis Barrault

The theatre has built a whole art round the actor, based on the man and his double - the actor and his character.

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Madeleine L'Engle

I share Einstein's affirmation that anyone who is not lost in rapturous awe at the power and glory of the mind behind the universe "is as good as a burnt out candle. "

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Neil Gaiman

We have an obligation to read aloud to our children. To read them things they enjoy. To read to them stories we are already tired of. To do the voices, to make it interesting, and not to stop reading to them just because they learn to read to themselves. Use reading-aloud time as bonding time, as time when no phones are being checked, when the distractions of the world are put aside.

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Diane Ackerman

One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply?

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