"It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Cells Quotes

“We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities.”

Source : "Fictional character: Prentice Ritter". TV Mini-Series "Broken Trail" ("Part Two"), www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Aging nations have arteries clogged with obsolete laws, slowing blood flow and preventing oxygen from reaching all parts of the body politic. Physicians call this arteriosclerosis; historians see decline of empire.”
“I think for the foreseeable future we have to disabuse ourselves of any ideas of unifying, or coming together, or all getting along. I don't think we're going to reconcile the America that elected the first African American president with the America that just elected a president avidly endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan - I'm not sure I even want to reconcile the two.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I could never learn what I'm learning at college. They don't teach it there, because it can't be learned in that way.”
“They are cutting medicare”
“No more turkey, but I'd like some more of the bread it ate.”
“There are always those Gossip Girl walk-and-talk scenes where you're walking and just talking about life and death. You're having a serious conversation, looking someone in the eye, but everywhere around you, it's literally a circus.”

Source : Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 10, 2009.
“The Filipino is worth dying for.”

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