"Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing."

-- James Fenton

#Writing Quotes #Iowa Quotes #Creative Quotes

“Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.”

Source : "Irrational, illogical, unpredictable - 24 years on, the world awaits Saddam's next move" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.
“Our nature consists in motion; complete rest is death.”
“Nothing succeeds like - failure.”
“Hard work - I mean, does anybody use that term anymore? Laziness doesn't fly. It's all in the practice. It does take work and it ain't easy - but man, the rewards!”
“I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great, ... Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off. ... As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.”
“The rose goes in the front big guy”
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
“Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!”

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