"When people ask me which I would rather give up, writing or medicine, it's like being asked which eye I'd prefer to have poked out with a spoon: neither, and please use a fork."

-- Chris Adrian

#Giving Up Quotes #Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes

“One kid said to me, he said, Mr. Lloyd, we really owe you. And I explained to him, man, you owe me absolutely nothing. I said, whatever kind of career I had, it has served me well, but you do owe some people. And the people you owe are the folks who are going to come behind you. It's incumbent upon each watch â€” when you play your 10, 11 years and you're in your group â€” when you leave, I truly hope that you've done all you can possibly do to leave it a better place for the folks who come behind you.”
“One can't paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.”
“When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of people, then it makes you feel less crazy or alone, because you're seeing that other people are dealing with it too. You get to see in this imaginary scenario how people might try and answer some questions or deal with some problems.”
“Change the conversation of the world by dwelling on what's gone right.”
“At least the politicians are accountable to the voters.”
“If women who were free to speak did not speak, we might as well say to the entire world, 'No matter what you do to women, no one cares, just go right ahead.'”
“The measure of capacity is the measure of sphere to either man or woman.”

Source : Elizabeth Oakes Smith (2015). “The Western Captive and Other Indian Stories”, p.20, Broadview Press
“Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists.”

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