"If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life."

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Source : Source: thequietus.com

Nick Flynn

#Writing Quotes #Honor Quotes #Use Quotes

“One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb.”

Source : Edward Thomson (1872). “Evidences of Revealed Religion”, p.228
“The happier time, the quicker it passes”
“Okay, I won't open it until then”
“I don't care if I live or die. Go ahead and kill me.”
“He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.”
“I don't think I'd like to argue with you," I say. "I think it would be a very dissatisfying pastime.”
“I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.”
“That's what I love about poetry. The more abstract, the better. The stuff where you're not sure what the poet's talking about. You may have an idea, but you can't be sure. Not a hundred percent. Each word, specifically chosen, could have a million different meanings.”

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