"Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution."

-- Barbara Tuchman

#Seductive Quotes #Used Quotes #Dangerous Quotes

“Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people.”
“In most writers, style is a welcome, an invitation, a letting down of the drawbridge between the artist and the world. Shaw had no time for such ruses. Unlike most of his countrymen, he abominated charm, which he regarded as evidence of chronic temperamental weakness.”
“I love those who yearn for the impossible.”
“Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.”
“Writers are also sort of like vultures, but with fewer ethics.”
“Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.”
“it is extraordinary how much you are theirs, and how little they are yours. The child grows inside you and there is something mystical and mythical in that, but then you actually see that you are nothing more than the box in which they come. There is this total person, already formed, themselves.”
“What a person does is what he IS, not what he says.”

Source : Syd Field (2009). “Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay”, p.262, Delta

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