"Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it."

-- Romulus Linney

#Thinking Quotes #Scratches Quotes #Done Quotes

“Most conspiracy theorists dont understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist.”
“America is woven of many strands; I would recognize them and let it so remain. It's 'winner take nothing' that is the great truth of our country or of any country. Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. Our fate is to become one, and yet many - This in not prophecy, but description.”
“O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!”
“If we are true to Canada, if we do not desire to become part and parcel of these people, we cannot overlook this the greatest revolution of our times. Let us remember this, that when the three cries among our next neighbours are money, taxation, blood, it is time for us to provide for our own security.”
“The best Party is but a kind of Conspiracy against the rest of the Nation. They put every body else out of their Protection. Like the Jews to the Gentiles, all others are the Offscowrings of the World.”
“No, I donâ€™t live in heartache. I donâ€™t cry myself to sleep or any of that. I am, I tell myself, over it. But I do feel a void, icky as that sounds. Andâ€”like it or notâ€”I still think about her every single day.”
“One of the greatest misconceptions about Theodore Roosevelt - in his time and ours - is that he was impetuous.”
“Peoples have come to experience that political structures and divisions of power are not immutable. Nor will they perceive the distribution of wealth and resources between nations to be unalterably ordained by heaven and incapable of drastic rearrangement by the less than gentle manipulation of man.”

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