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Great heart of a book!

Reall good!

"While my thoughts were elsewhere, Auerbach took the picture. For only the second time that day the shutter fell through the moment, like a guillotine. You can see the relief on Mrs Ditton's face as she drops from the fullness of life into a smaller, diminished, immortality. She looks grateful to have the air knocked out of her. Anticipating a paper thin future, she floats free of the fat-thighed cushions

"What you pay attention to becomes your life. Attention is a crucial gateway between us and the world around us, between the events that happen to us and what happens in us. It is not the stream of events in the course of the day that registers in the consciousness; it is only what we pay attention to. What registers in our consciousness then determines what we experience. Our experiences are what we create."