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#1. I love writing both fiction and memoir. Both have unique challenges; bottom line, fiction is hard because you have to come up with the credible, twisty plot, and memoir is hard because you have to say something true and profound, albeit in a funny way.

Lisa Scottoline

#2. Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.

Malcolm Lowry

#3. Every morning, and every night, I resolved to start a new life, but I always procrastinated, acquiescing to my ailing willpower. And Saturday at eleven o'clock at night was not the right moment to make important decisions.

Cesar Aira

#4. One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

Leonard Mlodinow

#5. Only those who attempt the absurd ... will achieve the impossible. I think ... I think it's in my basement ... Let me go upstairs and check.

M.C. Escher

#6. I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

Thaddeus Stevens

#7. The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

Aoife O'Donovan

#8. Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.

Elton John

#9. I thought it would be a lot of fun and I wasn't going to do the movie without Johnny. The studio suggested a couple people, and I'd never met Johnny, but I thought we'd be a perfect team for this movie because we're both a little bit unpredictable.

Sean William Scott

#10. Art is not a mirror to hold up to reality, rather a hammer to shape it.

Bertolt Brecht

#11. It's important to live life with the experience, and therefore the knowledge, of its mystery and of your own mystery. This gives life a new radiance, a new harmony, a new splendor.

Joseph Campbell

#12. Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding.

Frank Herbert

#13. If my boy had perished in a Nazi compound, I could never have gone on living. I would have killed myself.

Coco Chanel

#14. An empty canvas is a living wonder ... far lovelier than certain pictures.

Wassily Kandinsky

#15. Nearly every communication method we invent eventually conveys unwanted commercial messages.

Jamais Cascio