"I find so much writing colourless, small in its means, unwilling to take stylistic risks. Often it goes wrong; I am not the one to judge. Sometimes, I hope, it goes right."

-- George Steiner

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Judging Quotes

“Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now.”
“Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.”
“In the desert, the two primary elements are stone and water. Stone comes in abundance, exposed by weathering and a lack of vegetation. It is a canvas. Water crosses this stone with such rarity and ferocity that it tells all of its secrets in the shapes left behind.”
“Only after disaster can we be resurrected.”
“I'm a curiosity in Hollywood. I'm a big freak, because I'm myself!”
“I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.”
“The human species was given dominion over the earth and took the opportunity to exterminate other species and warm the atmosphere and generally ruin things in its own image, but it paid this price for its privileges: that the finite and specific animal body of this species contained a brain capable of conceiving the infinite and wishing to be infinite itself.”
“didn't come from a particularly political family. My parents were regular voters. My parents didn't make enough money to contribute to campaigns, and they didn't really knock on doors for candidates when I was growing up.”

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