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“Scholarly acumen sharpens taste and judgment, but we must never mistake criticism for art. Intellectual analysis, however heady, will not nourish the soul.”
― Robert McKee, Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting

“Мне для жизни нужны две вещи, —говорит тетя Эйр, — скорость и самоуважение.”
― Maria Parr, Tonje Glimmerdal

“And then he utters seven words, which Parvaneh will always remember as the loveliest compliment he’ll ever give her. “Because you are not a complete twit.”
― Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

“...небольшая компания комаров занималась штопанием воздуха над мимозой.”
― Nabokov Vladimir

“She looked, quickly, quickly, it was better than before, thanked him and averted her eyes. She came to trust him with her disintegration.”
― A.S. Byatt, The Matisse Stories

“You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default.”
― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

“Aunty, they say that you make impossible things possible.”

She laughed again. “Eh, but they say that about Anansi, about Nyame, about the white man. I can only make the possible attainable. Do you see the difference?”
― Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing

“We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They win.”
― Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”
― Rumi

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein