Mary Stewart

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The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

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kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams

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Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?

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Yes, but the artist?" said Nigel almost fiercely. "He's different, you know he is. He's driven by some compulsion: if he can't do what he knows he has to do with his life he might as well be dead. He's got to break through the world's indifference, or else break himself against it. He can't help it

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I assure you, I've come to one of those natural breaks in the book, where one can walk away and let things go on working in the subconscious. It's true, don't look so unbelieving. It means I can afford to tear myself away from my view of the pigsties and go out on parole, as much as I like and you'll put up with