"Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence."

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Source : Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

Ishmael Reed

#Writing Quotes #Men Quotes #Fleeting Quotes

“I got a generation brainwashed to pop pills and smoke pot til they brains rot.”
“It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.”
“Love's the only goal, that can bring a peace to any soul.”
“I've had very close relationships with some twentieth-century writers.”
“I need some challenges in love or I'm bored.”
“There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.”
“Cynical is a fool's word for realist.”

Source : Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.61, Penguin
“Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.”

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