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Quote by Graham Swift
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we all use and to make amazing things occur. – Graham Swift

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In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic. – Graham Swift

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Trust
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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it. – Graham Swift

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alone
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For the past 21 years, Ive been privileged to be part of an amazing organization called the International Womens Media Foundation. – Judy Woodruff

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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me. – Sam Elliott

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A million words were going through my head and honestly I didnt say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in – the moment was amazing. – Stefano Langone

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I jetset around and play these songs and get to hang with some pretty amazing people, then I go home to a really great farm, though actually its a disaster area of a farm at the moment. But its certainly a blast. I wouldnt trade lives with anyone right now. – Brad Paisley

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My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle. – Liberace

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We must travel in the direction of our fear. – John Berryman

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True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. – Socrates

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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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