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61 " If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.’ "
― Dean Koontz , Ashley Bell (Ashley Bell, #1)
62 " Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. "
63 " In this troubled world, everything was transient except what we could carry with us in our minds and hearts. Every home ceased to be a home sooner or later, but not with its demolition. It survived destruction as long as just one person who had loved it still lived. Home was the story of what happened there, not the story of where it happened. "
64 " one of the saddest things about the human condition was that most people never realized what talents, capacities, and depth they possessed "
65 " Some people thought that novels were a kind of lie, because the stories and the characters were made up, but fiction could be a search engine with which you could find elusive truths and peel them layer by layer, especially those truths that writers of nonfiction rarely if ever considered, either because they did not believe such truths existed or because they did not want them to exist. "
66 " Valiant girls routinely did brave things or else they lost their chance to be above the herd. Thereafter they became sad, timid women, washed-out wallflowers, pitiful drudges condemned to drab lives "
67 " She… Hears the song in the egg of a bird. —James Dickey, Sleeping Out at Easter "
68 " When writing organically, allowing characters their free will, the author could be surprised by who died and who lived in the final act. "
69 " War,” Pax said, “either dulls the mind to despair or sharpens it toward intuitive truths.” “Who said that?” “I did. "
70 " People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they’re children. "
71 " The Evening of the Mind” by Donald Justice: Now comes the evening of the mind / Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood. "
72 " Only the most formulaic authors always knew when they began a story what the fate of their lead would be. When writing organically, allowing characters their free will, the author could be surprised by who died and who lived in the final act. "
73 " To achieve your goals, imagination was almost as important as hard work. You couldn’t win the prize if you couldn’t imagine what it was and where it might be found. "
74 " Are you a dedicated social networker?” “Not much, dear. I have better ways to waste my time. Besides, I find social networking too antisocial for the most part. But I think it’s wise to keep an eye on it. "
75 " Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.’ "
76 " here in the tumultuous second decade of the new century, frightening numbers of people were either easy to deceive or wished ardently to submit to any belief system, no matter how delusional, that reassured them and justified their hatreds. "
77 " Ordinary daily life, which so many people thought had no flash or filigree, was to Bibi at all times extraordinary; so much magic and wonder were at work in the world, so much mystery in its depths, that she didn’t want—and couldn’t cope with—any more than what it offered to anyone who was willing to see. After "
78 " the cause of their fury was the confining narrowness of the worldview they crafted for themselves, its emptiness. "
79 " Οταν συνειδητοποίησε ότι τα δάκρυα μπορεί να ήταν τόσο επίμονα όσο τα φίδια, κατέφυγε στο μοναδικό φάρμακο που θεράπευε πάντα κάθε είδους δυσάρεστα συναισθήματα: ένα βιβλίο. "
80 " Η θάλασσα πάντα τη γαλήνευε, έστω και μόνο το άρωμά της ή ο καταπραϋντικός ήχος των κυμάτων που έπεφταν πάνω στα βράχια και πιτσίλιζαν την άμμο. "