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“Ah well, so be it. The compensation of growing old, Peter Walsh thought, coming out of Regent’s Park, and holding his hat in hand, was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained — at last! — the power which adds the supreme flavour to existence — the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“Possessing a creative mind, after all, is something like having a border collie as a pet: It needs to work, or else it will cause you an outrageous amount of trouble.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“Every molecule of my being has always pointed me towards this line of work - towards language, storytelling, research, narrative. If destiny didn't want me to be a writer, I figure, then it shouldn't have made me one.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear