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Samuel Johnson

"A writer only begins a book. A reader finishes it."

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Amber Hurdle

"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"

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Amber Hurdle

"You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal."

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"The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind."

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"For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose."

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"A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness."

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"Anyone who knew Violet well could tell she was thinking hard, because her long hair was tied up in a ribbon to keep it out of her eyes. Violet had a real knack for inventing and building strange devices, so her brain was often filled with images of pulleys, levers, and gears, and she never wanted to be distracted by something as trivial as her hair."

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Amber Hurdle

"I always said you have to be really smart or really dumb to play this game well. I just don't know where I fit in."

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Amber Hurdle

"At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air."

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Amber Hurdle

"My brain has become my enemy. We fight over creation and his need for sleep."

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"The longer Ellen Cherry thought about it, the more convinced she became that the mission of the artist in an overtechnologized, overmasculinized society was to call the old magic back to life.Could it be done? Yeah, you pessimistic wimps, it could. Could she do it? Probably not, but she could give it a whirl."

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