"When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing."

-- Linn Ullmann

#Writing Quotes

“Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.”

Source : "Straight Allies: The Importance and the Realities" by Jack Antonoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 16, 2012.
“I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.”
“According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.”
“May all the gods whom I settled in their sacred centers ask daily of BÃªl and NÃ¢bu that my days be long and may they intercede for my welfare. ... The people of Babylon blessed my kingship, and I settled all the lands in peaceful abodes.”

Source : Inscription on the Cyrus Cylinder, as translated at Livius.org, www.livius.org. 538 B.C.E..
“My kids are too old to remember this now but, when they were much younger, I swore to them if this miracle ever happened, I would receive it in the spirit of Tigger from Winnie the Pooh, and thats what that was.”
“Fill the seats of justice with good men, not so absolute in goodness as to forget what human frailty is.”

Source : Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd (1836). “Ion: A Tragedy in 5 Acts”, p.113
“I love tennis with a passion. I challenged Boris Becker to a match once and he said he was up for it but he never called back. I bet I could make him run around.”
“Thereâ€™s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.”

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