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Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever. ↗

— Samantha Morton

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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. ↗

— Saint Teresa

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My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet. ↗

— Edwin Moses

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To all my critics, you get paid to be negative. ↗

— Randy Moss

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Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

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To say a poem is absolute is saying nothing, because an ink blot can be absolute. Yet you put into it what you like. So it becomes totally relative. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out. ↗

— Walter Mosley

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I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.' ↗

— Walter Mosley

#anything #apart #ask #back #build

There's many things that I am. And all of those things come together at some point. If somebody wants to limit me, you know and they'll say, 'Well, this is Walter Mosley, the mystery writer.' I don't like that. Because I do many things. ↗

— Walter Mosley

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We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.' ↗

— Walter Mosley

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