"My four articles of faith: clarity, simplicity, brevity and humanity."

-- William Zinsser

#Writing Quotes #Simplicity Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.”
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
“Maybe in writing about and through trauma it was therapeutic in a way, but it didn't feel like it at the time. I was in a very dark place, in lots of foreign cities, far from New York. A lot of personal trials and tribulations took over my life in those years. It might be some time before I see what therapeutic function this book did serve. But for now, it's not even easy to read from it.”

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“I was able to do To Sleep with Anger, a very powerful film about African Americans, their spirituality, and the things that happened within a small community and a family.”
“By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.”
“Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.”

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“The most insane things can become normal if you have them around you long enough. A mind canâ€™t seem to hold anything too crazy for too long without finding a way to make it seem normal.”
“I feel that my playing on the first album was probably some of my best.”

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