"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."

-- Lloyd Alexander

#Heart Quotes #Trying Quotes #Keep Trying Quotes

“Wisely used history can give pleasure and provide us with a useful tool; but we should not become its slaves.”
“Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.”
“He was a wonderful man. And when a man is that special, you know it sooner than you think possible. You recognize it instinctively, and you're certain that no matter what happens, there will never be another one like him.”
“The way I played music there was the way I wanted to farm, chop wood, cook, make love, raise children. Everything. A lo of it had to do with things I felt while I played. If only I could feel that sense of total absorption in what I was doing when I was doing other things. It was more than absorption, it was spontaneity, competence, a sense of grace and playfulness, of being in touch with an inexhaustible source of energy and beauty.”

Source : Mark Vonnegut (2011). “The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity”, p.52, Seven Stories Press
“In LA, it's the law that you must be engaged in writing a screenplay with your hairdresser, pool boy, personal trainer, life coach, dog walker, or yoga instructor.”
“Large scale collective bargaining . . . is merely a seductive name for bilateral monopoly, and means either adjudication of conflicts in terms of power, or deadlock and stoppage, usually injuring outside people more than the immediate parties to the dispute.”
“History dies without the present. There is no future without the path made to it by the past.”

Source : Aidan Chambers (2010). “This Is All”, p.147, Random House
“We need to respect the oceans and take care of them as if our lives depended on it. Because they do.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 26, 2018

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