"I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head."

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Elizabeth Crook

#Thinking Quotes #Influence Quotes #Rhythm Quotes

“I was seeing everything through pain.”
“I think Americas food culture is embedded in fast-food culture. And the real question that we have is: How are we going to teach slow-food values in a fast-food world? Of course, its very, very difficult to do, especially when children have grown up eating fast food and the values that go with that.”
“A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.”
“Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.”
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
“It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.”

Source : "Good Sense without God, or, Freethoughts Opposed to Supernatural Ideas". Book by Baron d'Holbach, 1900.
“the desert breeds reserve. It is so big that one's own plans and projects seem too little to be talked about. Also, there is so much time to say anything that one continually puts it off and ends by never saying it at all.”

Source : Rosita Forbes (1921). “The Secret of the Sahara: Kufara”
“We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.”

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