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Samuel had no equal for soothing hysteria and bringing quiet to a frightened child. It was the sweetness of his tongue and the tenderness of his soul. And just as there was a cleanness about his body, so there was a cleanness in his thinking. Men coming to his blacksmith shop to talk and listen dropped their cursing for a while, not from any kind of restraint but automatically, as though this were not the place for it.
East of Eden
John Steinbeck
For the last hundred years or so we’ve trained children not to ask for anything, because it’s a nuisance. Children are told, ‘Those that ask don’t get.’ And then as an adult they think they’d be selfish if they said, ‘It makes me feel better when you text before you go to sleep to say goodnight.’ It doesn’t sound much to ask, does it?
Conversations on Love
Natasha Lunn
Hollywood has a good model for this, in terms of the high concept of movie pitches.
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