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"There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."

"Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."

"I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."

"The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences."
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"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell."

"Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space."

"We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings."

"The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing."

"I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare."

"I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable."

"The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering."

"Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret."
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