"I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion."

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Edna Ferber

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes

“You see, I went to the sixth grade and that was the highest I ever went.”
“Governments ... should not force and govern belief, which is a matter for the heart and conscience not for temporal authorities.”
“An actor needs something to stabilize his personality, something to nail down what he really is, not what he is currently pretending to be.”
“I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.”
“During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.”
“State what you actually see in someone's work first: objects/space/color/directional flow - then content. Interpret.”
“There is nothing so entirely desirable in all the world as a few hours oblivion.”

Source : Anne Reeve Aldrich (1899). “A Village Ophelia”
“No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.”

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