"Writing is not primarily escape, but use."

-- Henry James

#Writing Quotes #Use Quotes

“There is no systematic corruption in FIFA. That is nonsense. We are financially clean and clear.”

Source : "Sepp Blatter attacks English 'arrogance' after World Cup 2018 failure" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2010.
“Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science.”

Source : Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.5, Vintage Canada
“The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.”
“Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am / And wild for to hold, though I seem tame.”

Source : 1557 'Whoso List to Hunt'. The subject of the poem is thought to Be Anne Boleyn. See Bible 118:23.
“Envy and jealousy are very harmful because you are never ever satisfied with what you have and you never reflect on what you have. You constantly live your life on what you do not have.”
“It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.”
“I do not pretend that I have led a blameless life, or that one fault justifies another, but the public in judging a case like mine should remember that the darkest life may now have a bright side”

Source : "Interview with Ned Kelly". "The Age", August 9, 1880.
“The thought that I had been captured so soon, without having done anything for the revolution, made me feel ashamed. I thought: at least now, I must carry out my duty well under torture.”

Source : "Torture and Resistance in Iran". Book by Ashraf Dehghani, 1971.

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