David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish", p. 312 (Nook edition)
Cloud Atlas (2004)
“There are often some hundred times, a thousand times, before you can really see it for the first time.”
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Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet
As quoted by Oprah Winfrey.
Oprah Winfrey's paraphrase:
When people show you who they are, believe them.
Source: [When people show you who they are, believe them, http://www.oprah.com/oprahs-lifeclass/when-people-show-you-who-they-are-believe-them-video, 2016-01-19, Oprah's Lifeclass, Oprah, Winfrey, Oprah Winfrey Network, 2011-10-26, 1, 13, 90, en-us, Oprah Winfrey]
Source: [Book club finale, http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/One-of-Dr-Maya-Angelous-Most-Important-Lessons_1, 2016-01-19, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah, Winfrey, 1997-06-18, 45, en-us, Oprah Winfrey]
T.S. Eliot The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915)
Context: There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands,
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.
“I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
Thomas Wolfe book You Can't Go Home Again
Source: You Can't Go Home Again
“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Variant: You have to die a few times before you actually live.
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
David Gilmour (1946) guitarist, singer, best known as a member of Pink Floyd
Source: The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son
