"Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins."

-- Andrea Barrett

#Writing Quotes #Self Quotes #Breathing Quotes

“When you expand the definition of marriage beyond one man and one woman, society can expect other consenting adults in other configurations to say that their choices deserve recognition.”

Source : "This Holiday Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us". Interview with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. May 13, 2013.
“Battle scars just remind us that we survived.”
“Something of great importance now past is inferior to something of little importance now present, in that the latter is a reality, and related to the former as something to nothing.”
“I read mysteries like Nancy Drew and Alfred Hitchcock, and I swim and I ride my motorbike.”
“The fundamental basis of this nationâ€™s laws was given to Moses on the Mountâ€¦If we donâ€™t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.”
“I never gave up Christianity until I was forty years of age.”

Source : Charles Darwin (2008). “On the Origin of Species”, Sterling Publishing Company Incorporated
“If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.”
“This meal happened to be a make-believe tea, and they sat round the board guzzling in their greed; and really, what with their chatter and recriminations, the noise, as Wendy said, was positively deafening.”

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