"What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!"

-- Gustave Flaubert

#Strong Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Heavy Quotes

“Writing is the hardest work in the world. I have been a bricklayer and a truck driver, and I tell you â€“ as if you haven't been told a million times already â€“ that writing is harder. Lonelier. And nobler and more enriching.”
“I don't categorize myself. I don't think I'm perceived as a female act by my audience. My fans include just as many men as women.”
“I love my lifestyle now, but at the end of nine months, you're toast. You are toast. It's like running a marathon. You can't think while you're doing it. Especially when different directors come in who are not part of the posse, the circle”
“Why should the eyes be denied what delights them most?”
“While majority opinion may not take kindly to forms of modern art, that same majority has also been hostile to most original and radical innovations, such as automobiles or airplanes or transatlantic cables or Protestantism or the theory that the earth is round and not flat.”
“In 1999, the NRA leadership in Washington, pretty much the same people intact, were for (expanded background checks.)”
“I don't have time for their judgement and their stupidity and you know they lay down with their ugly wives in front of their ugly children and look at their loser lives and then they look at me and they say, 'I can't process it' well, no, you never will stop trying, just sit back and enjoy the show. You know?”
“There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.”

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