"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition."

Comfort, Intuition, Wilderness

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"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition."

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"He wanted to stay there forever, letting her soothe him, pretending he was just a kid and his mom could make everything okay."

Suzanne Collins, American Novelist

Comfort, Childhood, Security, Nostalgia

"In time the whole family perked up like Sesame Street puppets, hoping that cheer, if worked at hard enough, could sugar the living and quiet the dead."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Comfort, Family, Life, Hope, Quiet

"The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Comfort, Pleasure, Liberty, Fire

"I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you."

L. M. Montgomery, Canadian Author

Comfort, Safety, Night, Peace

"Winston stopped reading, chiefly in order to appreciate the fact that he was reading, in comfort and safety. He was alone: no telescreen, no ear at the keyhole, no nervous impulse to glance over his shoulder or cover the page with his hand. The sweet summer air played against his cheek. From somewhere far away there floated the faint shouts of children: in the room itself there was no sound except the insect voice of the clock. He settled deeper into the arm-chair and put his feet up on the fender. It was bliss, it was eternity."

George Orwell, British Author

Comfort, Peace, Reading, Solitude

"Blessed be His name that He has arranged that one Person of the Sacred Trinity should undertake this office of Comforter, for no man could ever perform its duties. We might as well hope to be the Savior as to be the Comforter of the heartbroken!"

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

Comfort, Faith, Hope, Divine, Support

"With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and "fix" you...and follow you...until you are well on your way."

Elizabeth George, American Author

Comfort, Faith, Strength, Resilience

"When I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns."

Charles Bukowski, American Author

Comfort, Courage, Animals, Emotion

"Books were safer than other people anyway."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Comfort, Safety, Books, Isolation

"There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer."

Elizabeth Gilbert, American Novelist

Comfort, Trouble, Cure, Prayer

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"I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something. I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn't know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen."

Now

"I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?"

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"When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another."

People

"You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself."

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"I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun."

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"Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in."

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"You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school."

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"My mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that."

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"Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory."

Doubt

"When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years."

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