"The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you."

-- Richard Peck

#Writing Quotes #Bridges Quotes #Light Quotes

“And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to make of us not simply victims, as nature and accident do, but active accomplices.”
“My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.”
“PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.”
“He couldn't even find the will to yell at her now. A real man didn't yell at those who weren't exactly sane themselves, he told himself.”
“When you're in film and you're in close, charisma in the eyes and confidence can take over. But when someone's sitting twenty rows back, you need the whole body. You need to be encompassed by an actor.”

Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2013.
“With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.”

Source : "Fictional character: Rhett Butler". "Gone with the Wind", www.imdb.com. 1939.
“You know how they say the grass is always greener on the other side? It is greener, because you're not there. And if you go you'll trample it and leave dirty footprints and probably spill something poisonous.”
“I want to catch Mr Whitlam with his pants down.”

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