"If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“The Christian is the person who sees every time and every situation, however dreary and repetitive, as God sees it - a fresh creation from his hand, demanding its own response in perhaps a wholly new and creative way. Under God he is free over it. He has won through to a purchase over events; he has risen with Christ.”
“The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.”
“I am a fan of the true crime and horror genres! So, I've got a dark side too.”

Source : Brightest Young Things Interview, brightestyoungthings.com. June 23, 2016.
“I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do”
“The reason why you date people is to get to know who you're gonna marry and spend the rest of your life with”
“I wish it to be remembered that I was the last man of my tribe to surrender my rifle.”

Source : Sitting Bull, Mark Diedrich (1998). “Sitting Bull: The Collected Speeches”
“No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.”
“Thank you for caring for my brother." He took his sunglasses off. And looked at her with total adoration.”

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