"Start with something messy, get to the point, get an editor, and make it good."

-- Rands

#Editors Quotes #Messy Quotes

“If your body could speak, what would it say?”
“I am the character you are not supposed to like.”
“We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't they?”
“It was apparent to me that religion was an invented thing, a wish-fulfillment thing, a fantasy thing. It was much more real, dangerous, to accept that mortality was the end for you as an individual. As an atheist, I don't believe in an afterlife, so if you're thinking of murder, if your subject is murder, then that's a physical act of absolute destruction because you're ending something, a body, that is unique. That person never existed before, will never exist again, will not be karmically recycled, will not go to heaven, therefore I take it seriously.”
“The White House announced plans to begin normalizing relations with Cuba - this as we're awkwardizing relations with Russia.”
“We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.”
“True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.”

Source : George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.369
“I didn't choose the fact that I was gay, but I did choose whether to live my life as a gay woman-that was the terrifying thing for me. Especially being a gay actress.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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