"I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard rather than having read."

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Source : Gayl Jones (2005). “White Rat: Short Stories”, Harlem Moon

Gayl Jones

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Listening Quotes

“We do not accept that human society should be constructed on the basis of a savage principle of the survival of the fittest”
“They (voters) want to know what's the truth. They're not interested in a chameleon.”
“Things that are not at all, are never lost.”

Source : Christopher Marlowe (2012). “Complete Poems”, p.75, Courier Corporation
“Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.”
“[John Coltrane] liked my qualities as a person and that's the reason why he let me play with him. It wasn't what I was doing musically or my instrument or anything like that. He let me play whatever I wanted to play.”
“I believe the artist is capable of contributing to the broader evolution of culture in all of its dimensions.”

Source : Source: www.artpractical.com
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.”
“We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush.”

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