"Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it!"

-- Clara Barton

#Writing Quotes #Biographies Quotes #Ill Quotes

“Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.”
“I am interested in the unknown, and the only path to the unknown is through breaking barriers, an often painful process.”
“The U.S. needs a strong techno brand like Awakenings, just pretty much pure techno.”

Source : Source: www.spin.com
“The things that we want we willingly believe, and the things that we think we expect everyone else to think.”
“If you're going to write about something it becomes a damn sight more interesting than if you're not going to write about it, because you engage with it actively in a way that you wouldn't if you were just passing through or if you were going to St Helens to visit family or if it was a place that made you resentful because you'd always wanted to escape from there.”
“The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.”

Source : Thomas Love Peacock (1875). “The Works of Thomas Love Peacock: Including His Novels, Poems, Fugitive Pieces, Criticisms, Etc”
“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”
“I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.”

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