"Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst"

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Source : Susan Cheever (2011). “Louisa May Alcott: A Personal Biography”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

Susan Cheever

#Writing Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Worst Quotes

“First of all, to do performance art, you really have to give 100 percent. I only know that I have to give 100 percent and then what happens, happens.”
“The basis, the corner-stone of this Government, was the perfect equality of the free, sovereign, and independent States which made it.”

Source : Robert Augustus Toombs (1860). “Speech of Hon. Robert Toombs: On the Crisis. Delivered Before the Georgia Legislature, December 7, 1860”, p.3
“Think about a cloud. Just float around and be there.”
“Perhaps, in the end, there are no such things as creative people; there are only sharp observers with sensitive hearts.”
“There are literally endless options and possibilities, and often no clear or obvious path in how to make that choice, and nobody to tell you to go this way or that. But somehow, it works itself out if you trust in the process, which is often easier said than done.”
“Women shouldn't iron, ever. It's our wrinkles that make us interesting.”
“If we can't be free at least we can be cheap.”
“Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.”

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