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Reading was not an escape for her, any more than it is for me. It was an aspect of direct experience. She distinguished, of course, between the fictional world and the real one, in which she had to prepare dinners and so on. Still, for us, the fictional world was an extension of the real, and in no way a substitute for it, or refuge from it. Any more than sleeping is a substitute for waking." (Jincy Willett) ↗

— Jincy Willett

#reading #experience

Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present. ↗

— Asa Gray

#cause #confesses #difficulties #everything #find

No, that's not it. The first time we met was at Fat Tuesday's. Benny was playing, this was, I think in 1989? ↗

— Benny Green

#fat #first #first time #i #i think

I think I'm in the best place I've ever been in so many ways. I've just come out of five years of very difficult times for numerous reasons and yet at the same time it's lead to such growth. It's very exciting that way. ↗

— Erin Gray

#best #come #difficult #difficult times #ever

Learning how to get in tune with your field of energy and understand how to create your energy, expand that energy, and move that energy through your body. Coming back to your center, and approaching life from that center-to-line place... That to me gave me strength and understanding and hopefully wisdom to solve life's problems and challenges. ↗

— Erin Gray

#back #body #center #challenges #coming

The comic is today's western, so many movies, and I think that if actors want to optimize their longevity, it's important for them to meet the fans because those fans are so loyal and will show up at any movie or tune in to any television show they're on. ↗

— Erin Gray

#because #comic #fans #i #i think

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking... surreal. ↗

— Ashley Tisdale

#celebrity #dies #hard #nowhere #out

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know. ↗

— John Dryden

#being mad #know #mad #madmen #none

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it. ↗

— David Duchovny

#i #i think #i wish #patience #skill

I was not an easy kid. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#i #kid