"I don't think I could write about someone I didn't feel some sympathy for."

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Stef Penney

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feels Quotes

“Creativity is no excuse for obnoxious behavior”

Source : Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “No Time to Die”, p.51, Simon and Schuster
“Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation... 'Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him.' - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.”
“But the truth is the highest consideration.”
“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”
“I'm functioning on a lung and a half, but I have proved that it's possible to challenge yourself.”
“Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.”
“I guess I'm not that metrosexual. My bathroom cabinet is hardly overflowing with products. I only really have my stuff for shaving. I can't honestly say I moisturise, though I probably should.”
“All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.”

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