Daryl McCormack
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To trust in the process.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
We are too often advised to live life to the fullest. That’s too much pressure. The key is to find joy and poignancy in the quiet and mundane. Life is lived between the so-called big moments.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 3 August 2024 source ↗
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Matthew Modine
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That we are all no more and no less than a single thread in a gigantic web of life. What we do and how we behave has repercussions for the entire web.
Clive James
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I think I actually wrote it in one of my poems is that my decline has been the making of me - I forget how I put it. Yeah, simply more reflective. I haven't got the excuse of moving forward just on impulse anymore, which I did, I think, for a long, long time.
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You have to ride the wave and never wait for it to be calm, because it never will be.
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I don’t even voice them. Perhaps the books are my outlet here.
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