"When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist."

-- William Landay

#Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes

“If you're going to do something that lasts 90 minutes, you can't really do it with stick figures.”
“We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation.”
“Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up into slavery. Chess is difficult, it demands work, serious reflection and zealous research.”
“Falling in love isn't as easy as it seems when you've seen love crash and burn right in front of your eyes.”
“The second request of the very pure soul is to see the coming of the Father's kingdom (cf. Mt. 6:10). What this means first of all is that each day Christ should reign among holy men. And this happens when the devil's power has been driven out of our hearts through the expulsion of sinful foulness and when God has begun to reign within us amid the good odors of virtue. With fornication vanquished, chastity rules; with anger overcome, peace is king; with pride under foot, humility is sovereign.”
“Give it up for the process that leads to childbirth!”
“The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.”

Source : "The Eichmann Kommandos". Book by Michael Angelo Musmanno, p. 153, 1961.
“For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.”

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