"I saw battle-corpses, myriads of them, And the white skeletons of young men-I saw them; I saw the debris and debris of all the dead soldiers of the war; But I saw they were not as was thought; They themselves were fully at rest-they suffer'd not; The living remain'd and suffer'd-the mother suffer'd, And the wife and the child, and the musing comrade suffer'd, And the armies that remain'd suffer'd."

-- Walt Whitman

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“If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.”

Source : William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.38, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“In order to have a literature, a nation must live, not merely on the practical, but on the moral and spiritual plane as well, contributing through its national life to the development of some side of the universal spirit of man.”
“No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.”
“When your heart speaks, take good notes.”
“We have to learn to love people even if they are not giving you what you want... and then not take it personally. If you feel hurt, you have to recognize that they are not hurting you because you are you, but because they are them. You have to try not to be so hard on yourself.”

Source : FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Mar 26, 2017
“I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat for, like, five seconds, I basically got the tempo, and I don't need to hear it no more. I just focus and write.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Blank pages inspire me with terror.”
“The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing.”

Source : Michael Shaara (2013). “The Killer Angels”, p.82, Birlinn

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