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GORDON ATKINSON Good writing takes more than just time; it wants your best moments and the best of you. GORDON ATKINSON One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'... GORDON ATKINSON The human heart cannot love the whole world. And if you try to put the whole world into your heart, ... GORDON ATKINSON Some things you do because you want to. Some things you do because of the needs of others in your fa... GORDON ATKINSON See things as they are and write about them. Dont waste your creative energy trying to make things... GORDON ATKINSON If you want to write you must have faith in yourself. Faith enough to believe that if a thing is tru... GORDON ATKINSON Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whisperin... GORDON ATKINSON One of the joys we have in being human is in exercising our freedom to choose and to take each case ... GORDON ATKINSON Knowing that there is worse pain doesn't make present pain hurt any less. GORDON ATKINSON I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud. GORDON ATKINSON External signs of wealth and success are often cheap storefronts that hide internal mediocrity or ev... GORDON ATKINSON Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers. BROOKS ATKINSON In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For ev... BROOKS ATKINSON You can forget a lot of things, but you cannot forget a womans name and claim to love her. GORDON ATKINSON When someone allows you to bear his burdens, you have found deep friendship. GORDON ATKINSON There isnt much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with p... GORDON ATKINSON This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same. GORDON ATKINSON You can't love anyone until you understand that you can't love everyone. GORDON ATKINSON I dont think anyone can DO anything that would make him worthy of love. Love is a gift and cannot ... GORDON ATKINSON I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose ... GORDON ATKINSON This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what youre doing, or ... GORDON ATKINSON I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you ... GORDON ATKINSON Love the ones you can. Touch the ones you can reach. Let the others go. GORDON ATKINSON My life is the story of a man who always wants to carry too much. My spiritual quest is the painful ... GORDON ATKINSON Fidelity to commitment in the face of doubts and fears is a very spiritual thing. GORDON ATKINSON The only comfort comes in thinking about how nice it was to know them, and how nice it was to brush ... GORDON ATKINSON I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended perio... ROWAN ATKINSON We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five yea... ROWAN ATKINSON