"Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking."

-- Patricia T. O'Conner

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Suspects Quotes

“Natalie Portman never looks back, ever. Ever!”
“I flipped the good doctor the bird. Snorting, Gideon caught my hand and pulled me back down the hall. "What is it with you and giving people the finger?" "What? It's a classic.”
“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.”
“If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'”
“I ... am endeavoring ... to attend to my own duty only as a Christian. ... let us take care that our Christianity, though put to the test ... be not shaken, and that our love for things really good wax not cold.”
“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”
“I believe Donald Trump would be better for America than Barack Obama, because he understands business. Donald Trump has taken a pro- life position. He believes that we're getting shanghaied by China.”
“Evenhanded fate hath but one law for small and great; the ample urn holds all men's names.”

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