"Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why."

-- James Joyce

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Language Quotes

“I wish our love was right now.”
“Despite popular conviction, a writer needn't wear black, be unshaven, sickly and parade around New York's East Village spewing aphorisms and scaring children.”

Source : Noah Lukeman (2010). “The First Five Pages: A Writer'S Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection P”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
“We live in a free country. While patriotism is important, liberty of thought and liberty of expression are even more important.”
“I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.”
“The main lesson to be learned from the Love Canal crisis is that in order to protect public health from chemical contamination, there needs to be a massive outcry--a choir of voices--by the American people demanding change.”
“I know Donald Trump as a very adaptive person. In my nearly three and a half decades of being in the military, I've had maybe one, maybe two guys that I've worked for that were that adaptive in combat. He adapts to the great challenges, with his own sort of street smarts and his instincts.”
“Common Lisp is politics, not art.”
“Don't go running off at the mouth. Let the picture tell the story. No one tunes in to hear you broadcast the game, except maybe your mother or your wife.”

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