"REPARATION, n. Satisfaction that is made for a wrong and deducted from the satisfaction felt in committing it."

-- Ambrose Bierce

#Satisfaction Quotes #Made Quotes

“Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.”
“I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.”

Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.
“I find it ironic how New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg is so focused on such small issues as drink sizes, while ignoring the massive infrastructure challenges in New York - lousy roads, third-world airports, traffic jams, etc.”
“Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.”
“Cut like crazy. Less is more. I've often read manuscripts - including my own - where I've got to the beginning of, say, chapter two and have thought: â€œThis is where the novel should actually start.â€ A huge amount of information about character and backstory can be conveyed through small detail. The emotional attachment you feel to a scene or a chapter will fade as you move on to other stories. Be business-like about it.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“Never let hope elude you. That is life's biggest fumble.”
“I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.”
“It is when we come to the Lord in our nothingness, our powerlessness and our helplessness that He then enables us to love in a way which, without Him, would be absolutely impossible.”

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