"I am a gay writer, absolutely. And in no way does that fact limit the reach or importance of what I write."

-- Garth Greenwell

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“Your tweet is as important as if you would have written a Ph.D. [dissertation] on the subject.”
“I lifted the white cloth from the white face of the man that I had worshipped as an idol-looked upon as a demi-god. Notwithstanding the violence of the death of the President, there was something beautiful as well as grandly solemn in the expression of the placid face. There lurked the sweetness and gentleness of childhood, and the stately grandeur of godlike intellect. I gazed long at the face, and turned away with tears in my eyes and a choking sensation in my throat. Ah! never was man so widely mourned before. The whole world bowed their heads in grief when Abraham Lincoln died.”
“I think it's probably true that creative people are touched by melancholy more than the average person, and to the extent that delving into that shadow world produces good work, I'm all for it. But I think you have to be able to step back from the work, and say, "Look how miserable I felt. Look how beautifully I wrote about it. Now I'm going to get an iced coffee and chat with a friend." Writing should be a way out of despair.”

Source : Source: andreaauten.wordpress.com
“We may admire people for being wise, but we like them best when they are foolish.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.21
“Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going.”
“What right do they have to say "we the people" rather than we the States?”
“You can't change the bricks, and together, you still have to build a wall.”
“The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”

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