"It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing isâ€”an intense form of thought."

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Don DeLillo

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes

“The Europe we are in the process of building is the Europe of the 21st century; it's not the Europe of the 20th century.”
“Where Google and [Buckminster] Fuller overlap are in the potential for putting together disparate technologies in ways that can lead to something that might be a larger solution to a larger problem.”
“Lying is done with words and also with silence.”

Source : Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
“My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.”
“Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”
“Someday. That's a dangerous word. It's really just a code for 'never'.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tom Cruise from Jun 15, 2011
“The best time to expand is when no one else dares to take risks”
“We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition-that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.”

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