"Something that had an enormous influence over my relationship with language was my stammer. I had a really bad stammer in my childhood and adolescence, and that imbues you with two things. First, a hyper-sensitivity to grammar, because a stammerer will have problematic sounds, impossible verbal stumbling blocks. Second, writing is just such a joy when you have a problem with speaking. It's so astonishing to watch language coming out of your pen without any hesitation or dysfluency."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Block Quotes #Writing Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“War, sometimes you have to go for it, you know?”

Source : Source: www.freepatentsonline.com
“I want to be somebody. I mean I AM somebody, I just want to be a RICH somebody”
“Although each of us obviously inhabits a separate physical body, the laboratory data from a hundred years of parapsychology research strongly indicate that there is no separation in consciousness.”
“Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget That sunrise never failed us yet.”

Source : Celia Thaxter (1896). “The Poems of Celia Thaxter”
“Like driftwood spares which meet and pass Upon the boundless ocean-plain, So on the sea of life, alas! Man nears man, meets, and leaves again.”
“One good turn deserves another.”

Source : Petronius Arbiter (1999). “The Satyricon”, p.36, Oxford University Press, USA
“The only way we really create change is to enter any situation with the humility to listen and to recognize the world as it is, and then the audacity to dream what it could be.”

Source : "The Marriage of Love & Power: Conversation w/ Jacqueline Novogratz of Acumen Fund". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 1, 2013.
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

Source : The Lorax (1971)

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