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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#bit #came #different #everything #fool

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. ↗

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

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I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music. ↗

— Neil Finn

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Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#critic #emotional #frame #may #mind

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#deeper #dwells #falls #into #like

The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#being #genius #imagination #inherited #lying

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay. ↗

— Chris Colfer

#because #call #exposing #finding #gay

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? ↗

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

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