"Writers let themselves be enticed by the language."

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Peter Bichsel

#Writing Quotes #Language Quotes

“I live in a Swiss village so small, if you sneeze everyone knows.”
“I've had the good fortune to read a lot of great American writers in translation, and my absolute beloved, for me one of the greatest writers ever, is Mark Twain. Yes, yes, yes. And Whitman, from whom the whole of 20th-century poetry sprung up. Whitman was the origin of things, someone with a completely different outlook. But I think that he's the father of the new wave in the world's poetry which to this very day is hitting the shore.”
“Wall Street has enormous power over the Republican Party, enormous power over the Democratic Party.”
“You wonderful girl. Iâ€™ve missed you so much.â€ â€œWell, now that weâ€™re both unemployed fugitives, think of how much time weâ€™ll have to hang out!”
“It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.”

Source : "One Night @ the Call Center". Book by Chetan Bhagat, 2005.
“The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.”

Source : John F. MacArthur (2006). “Hard to Believe: The High Cost and Infinite Value of Following Jesus”, p.2, Thomas Nelson Inc
“I hate Science. It denies a man's responsibility for his own deeds, abolishes the brotherhood that springs from God's fatherhood. It is a hectoring, dictating expertise, which makes the least lovable of the Church Fathers seem liberal by contrast.”
“With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.”

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