"When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose"

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Source : Anne Fadiman (2008). “At Large and At Small: Familiar Essays”, p.64, Macmillan

Anne Fadiman

#Writing Quotes #Dark Quotes #Purple Quotes

“One should eat to live, not live to eat.”
“When we fill our thoughts with right things, the wrong ones have no room to enter”
“Human beings look separate because you see them walking about separately. But then we are so made that we can see only the present moment. If we could see the past, then of course it would look different. For there was a time when every man was part of his mother, and (earlier still) part of his father as well, and when they were part of his grandparents. If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing--rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.”
“It is easy to follow, but it is uninteresting to do easy things. We find out about ourselves only when we take risks, when we challenge and question.”
“When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth ...”
“Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.”
“I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.”
“Each routine you read turns out to be pretty much what you expected. You can call it beautiful code when the code also makes it look like the language was made for the problem.”

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