"The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on which we ride out the truth of our experiences."

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Clarence Major

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“When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.”
“You know, I would like to think that the right way to do things is that the people who actually have the jobs that are nominated by the president, confirmed by the Senate, have responsibility for different regions in the world - that they have responsibility for the policy.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition,”

Source : "Professor Conducted A Huge Study To Find Out Why People Kill" by Erin Fuchs, www.businessinsider.com. February 17, 2013.
“Writing is a process and you must trust the process! Fear and anxiety are part of that process along with the enthusaism and the good days and the joy and the passion and the great hopes you have for a book. But when you run into problems, when you get stuck or scared, you must trust that that is part of how a book comes to pass, and what you need to do is get very still and quiet because Self will tell you how to get out of a hole you've dug for yourself.”
“The Spartans do not enquire how many the enemy are, but where they are.”
“Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.”
“I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents.”
“The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.”

Source : "What Africa Needs Above All: The Rule of Law" by Dr. Mo Ibrahim, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2014.

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