"there are - as every one knows - two kinds of writing: one coming out of your vitals and the other from the top of your head. The first is the only sort from which any true private pleasure can be gained, for it is a way of getting something out of life which seemed to be there in childhood, when childhood is quite over."

-- J. E. Buckrose

#Writing Quotes #Two Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.”
“The truth was only another mask, even if it was the best fit, the closest to skin and all that lay beneath”
“Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.”
“There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.”

Source : William Graham Sumner (1924). “Selected Essays of William Graham Sumner”
“Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.”
“I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.”
“Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.”
“The doctor said I should do a lot of walking, so I walk to the mound nine or ten times a game.”

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