"Pardon me, dear human self, capable of the most heinous degradation, capable of soaring."

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Sena Jeter Naslund

#Self Quotes #Degradation Quotes #Pardon Me Quotes

“To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.”
“A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born â€¦ in poetry.”
“God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and Iâ€™ll take that any day,”

Source : FaceBook post by Nate Robinson from May 07, 2013
“There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.”
“One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.”

Source : Ernst Hans Gombrich (1978). “The Story of Art”
“So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?”
“Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction (part two)" by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“I always wanted to be historical, from almost a baby on, I felt that way about it ...”

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