"The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can."

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Julian Barnes

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Helping Quotes

“Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.”
“Is there any sign of spring quite so welcome as the glint of the first bluebird unless it is his softly whistled song? No wonder the bird has become the symbol for happiness. Before the farmer begins to plough the wet earth, often while snow is still on the ground, this hardy little minstrel is making himself very much at home in our orchards and gardens while waiting for a mate to arrive from the South.”
“Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.”
“A manager is an assistant to his men.”

Source : Thomas J. Watson, Peter Petre (2013). “Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond”, p.384, Bantam
“But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.”
“There is nothing so inspiring to a woman as seeing love in a man's eyes when he looks at her.”
“My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.”
“There is nothing in the nature of a miracle that should render it incredible:;: its credibility depends upon the nature of the evidence by which it is supported. An event of extreme probability will not necessarily command our belief unless upon a sufficiency of proof; and so an event which we may regard as highly improbable may command our belief if it is sustained by sufficient evidence. So that the credibility or incredibility of an event does not rest upon the nature of the event itself, but depends upon the nature and sufficiency of the proof which sustains it.”

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