"Throw yourself into the convulsions of the world. I'm not telling you to make the world better, because I don't believe progress is necessarily part of the package. I'm just telling you to live in it, to look at it, to witness it. Try and get it. Seize the moment."

-- Joan Didion

#Life Quotes #Believe Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
“All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”
“Don't you think it astonishing that, at 58, I am still working at improving my career?”
“I think that in the immediate aftermath of a superhuman machine intelligence revealing itself, most people would feel very threatened but take solace in the thought that we can always pull the plug.”

Source : "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.
“It is by virtue of the atonement that God can maintain His justice and yet demonstrate His mercy...”
“If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.”
“Afloat.We move: Delicious! Ah, What else is like the gondola?”
“Gay marriage within mainline denominations is gaining traction. Skewed pastors and even the government can't trump the Bible on this issue. Pastors: stand!”

You may also like:

Annie Dillard
Author
David Foster Wallace
Novelist
Dominick Dunne
Writer
Don DeLillo
Writer
John Gregory Dunne
Novelist
Joni Mitchell
Musician
Phoebe Philo
Fashion designer
Tom Wolfe
Author
William Faulkner
Writer