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    Iain Cameron Williams
    “The greatest gift this generation can give future generations is a HEALTHY PLANET.”
    Iain Cameron Williams

  • #2
    Iain Cameron Williams
    “A man who plants a tree could never be called a pessimist.”
    Iain Cameron Williams, The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue

  • #3
    Iain Cameron Williams
    “Hope is a place best not forgotten”
    Iain Cameron Williams
    tags: hope

  • #4
    Iain Cameron Williams
    “Don't let fashion dictate your style.”
    Iain Cameron Williams

  • #5
    Iain Cameron Williams
    “My greatest strengths are my weaknesses, for it is through acknowledging them that I learn how to grow.”
    Iain Cameron Williams

  • #6
    Iain Cameron Williams
    “A life void-of-purpose is no life at all”
    Iain Cameron Williams

  • #7
    Iain Cameron Williams
    “Writing is 90% struggle. The other 10% is up to you.”
    Iain Cameron Williams, Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall

  • #8
    Iain Cameron Williams
    “I never expected there to be so much death in my life.'
    I. C. Williams.”
    Iain Cameron Williams
    tags: death, life

  • #9
    Iain Cameron Williams
    “The greatest threat to climate change is humanity'
    Iain Cameron Williams, 2019”
    Iain Cameron Williams, Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall

  • #10
    Iain Cameron Williams
    “Excellence is the gateway to an infinite world of possibilities”
    Iain Cameron Williams

  • #11
    Iain Cameron Williams
    “Life doesn’t give you what you want; it gives you a version of what you can have.”
    Iain Cameron Williams, The Empirical Observations of Algernon

  • #12
    Frances Cornford
    “Magnificently unprepared
    For the long littleness of life”
    Frances Cornford

  • #13
    Frances Cornford
    On Rupert Brooke

    A young Apollo, golden-haired,
    Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
    Magnificently unprepared
    For the long littleness of life.”
    Frances Cornford

  • #14
    Frances Cornford
    “The spirits of children are remote and wise...”
    Frances Cornford

  • #15
    William Maxwell
    “What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a fixative and thereby rescued from oblivion--is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling. Too many conflicting emotional interests are involved for life ever to be wholly acceptable, and possibly it is the work of the storyteller to rearrange things so that they conform to this end. In any case, in talking about the past we lie with every breath we draw.”
    William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow

  • #16
    William Maxwell
    “His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.”
    William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow
    tags: grief

  • #17
    H.D.
    “...write, write or die.”
    H.D., Hermetic Definition

  • #18
    Ambrose Bierce
    “CLAIRVOYANT, n. A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron, namely, that he is a blockhead.”
    Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

  • #19
    Danielle L. Jensen
    “Peace is like a dance. It only works if both partners are listening to the same music.”
    Danielle L. Jensen, The Inadequate Heir

  • #20
    Alice Feeney
    “Childhood is a race to find out who you really are, before you become the person you are going to be. Not everybody wins.”
    Alice Feeney, Daisy Darker

  • #21
    Alice Feeney
    “We are all made of flesh and stars, but we all become dust in the end. Best to shine while you can.”
    Alice Feeney, Sometimes I Lie

  • #22
    Edgar Allan Poe
    “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.”
    Edgar Allan Poe

  • #23
    Jean Rhys
    “A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”
    Jean Rhys, Good Morning, Midnight

  • #24
    Colleen Hoover
    “Just because we didn’t end up on the same wave, doesn’t mean we aren’t still a part of the same ocean.”
    Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

  • #25
    Miriam Toews
    “Dan wanted me to stay. I wanted Elf to stay. Everyone in the whole world was fighting with somebody to stay. When Richard Bach wrote "If you love someone, set them free" he can't have been directing his advice at human beings.”
    Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows

  • #26
    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    Marilyn Monroe

  • #27
    Mitch Albom
    “All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”
    Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven

  • #28
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #29
    George Bernard Shaw
    “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
    George Bernard Shaw

  • #30
    Roald Dahl
    “If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.”
    Roald Dahl



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