"... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been"

-- Louisa May Alcott

#People Quotes #Vortex Quotes #Wrecks Quotes

“Before computers were everywhere I used record books, the old-fashioned way. I loved to cram, and I still love to cram, anything I write with extra facts, stuff I picked up. At the same time, especially in this day and age, you've got to make it sound like, or read like, you've not just been Googling because that's not fair, that's not right!”
“A living skeleton isn't enough for you, is it? What does it take to impress young people these days?”
“To me, patriotism means dedication to the principles on which the country was founded and a willingness to stand firm and fight for these principles regardless of what the government says or does”
“Nice is good, but it's not enough. I want you back for real. I want to talk to you at lunch, instead of staring at you while you eat. I want to see the smile on your face and know I put it there. I want to hear your dad's voice get all low and pissed off, like it only does when I've stayed over too late.”
“Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.”

Source : Samuel R. Delany (1977). “Triton”, Macmillan Reference USA
“We have better relationships with those who truly seek us rather than those sitting on the couch watching us move mountains trying to prove ourselves.”
“For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.”
“Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.”

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