"Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!"

-- Honore de Balzac

#Writing Quotes #Style Quotes #Thieves Quotes

“There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.”
“I'm vegan on home base, but when I travel to other countries, I throw it all into the garbage.”

Source : "Esquire Presents Me in My Place with Lake Bell", www.esquire.com. November 14, 2011.
“The secret to life and the greatest success strategy of all is to love all of it and fear none of it.”
“You know, at the end of the day, the only thing you have is trust and honor in this world. That's all you have. All you have is your reputation built on trust and your personal honor. When you don't have that anymore, well, you know, there you go. Trust was broken.”

Source : "Garcia shoots 66, leads Players by 2". www.sfgate.com. May 9, 2008.
“I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.”
“Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.”

Source : FaceBook post by Mark Hyman, MD from Jun 01, 2012
“His time was past, her handmaid Irri declared. No man should live longer than his teeth.”
“In those who rest on their unshakable faith, pharisaism and fanaticism are the unmistakable symptoms of doubt which has been repressed. Doubt is not overcome by repression but by courage. Courage does not deny that there is doubt, but it takes the doubt into itself as an expression of its own finitude and affirms the content of an ultimate concern. Courage does not need the safety of an unquestionable conviction. It includes the risk without which no creative life is possible.”

Source : Paul Tillich (1958). “Dynamics of faith”

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