"Whatâ€™s writing really about? Itâ€™s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life."

-- Ted Hughes

#Writing Quotes #Reality Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.”

Source : "An Oncologist Writes 'A Biography Of Cancer'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2010.
“None of us are perfect, and we all make mistakes. But the American people are a very forgiving people.”
“Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.”
“We attach our feelings to the moment when we were hurt, endowing it with immortality. And we let it assault us every time it comes to mind. It travels with us, sleeps with us, hovers over us while we make love, and broods over us while we die. Our hate does not even have the decency to die when those we hate die-for it is a parasite sucking OUR blood, not theirs. There is only one remedy for it. [forgiveness]”
“Your home is whatever in this world you love more than you love yourself.”
“Gerry Dawes, I can't thank you enough for opening up Spain to me.”
“Michigan State is always welcome at Ann Arbor. Your teams in all the various branches of athletics are more frequent visitors here than those of any other institution. This is as it should be, for not two universities are closer together in every way than Michigan State and Michigan.”
“I think I realized very early on that you can spend a lot of time constructing a really perfect scene in final draft and just end up throwing it away because you didn't figure out that mathematics of the story first.”

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