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“Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief... but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it? Yes, I think so. Because when the time is gone, you can never get it back.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
― Henry James, The Middle Years

“And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and willful as a bird's heart?”
― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man