"The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage."

-- Richard S. Ewell

#Baggage Quotes #Glory Quotes

“Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.”

Source : David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.168, Penguin
“A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.”

Source : Desi Arnaz (1994). “A Book”
“I think it is shocking that 15- and 16-year-olds leave school unable to add up and with the reading ability of a four-year-old.”
“I believe in living, I believe in birth, I believe in the sweat of love and in the fire of truth and I believe that a lost ship, steered by tired, sea sick sailors, can still be guided home to port”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.17, Zed Books
“One knows one's madnesses, by and large. By and large the knowledge is vacuous. The notion of naming the beast to conquer it is the idiot optimism of psychotherapy.”
“The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.”

Source : British Medical Journal 2: 359 (1959)
“But when I went to Hiroshima and began to study or just listen to people's descriptions of their work, it was quite clear they were talking about death all the time, about people dying all around them, about their own fear of death.”
“A very good editor is almost a collaborator.”

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