"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."

-- Alice Walker

#Writing Quotes #Violence Quotes #Sin Quotes

“I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.”
“The doctrine that the earth is neither the center of the universe nor immovable, but moves even with a daily rotation, is absurd, and both philosophically and theologically false, and at the least an error of faith.”
“Is it truly so unfathomable, that an imperfect girl might be perfectly loved?”
“Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential--with his sense of what he is capable of.”
“To lose one parent is a tragedy, to lose both is utter carelessness.”
“One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.89, Bernard Crick
“We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.”
“When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.”

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