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"I've told you before: I have a map of the night sky tattooed on the inside of my skin."
The Tooth Fairy
Graham Joyce
We can become scrupulous or fanatical; we can, in what seems zeal but is really presumption, embrace tasks never intended for us. That is the truth in the temptation.
A Year With C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
First you have to copy it. Then the original is taken away and you have to draw it from memory. Most adults are pretty good at this task, and they use the same strategy: they start by drawing the outlines of the figure, then fill in the details. Children, on the other hand, use a piecemeal approach: they randomly do one chunk of the drawing, then move on to another bit.
Talking to Strangers
Malcolm Gladwell
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