"The idea of being a writer attracts a good many shiftless people, those who are merely burdened with poetic feelings or afflicted with sensibility."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Ideas Quotes #People Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“Enough to know no knowing.”
“[The media] are using a national treasure--that's what the public airwaves are. And they have a responsibility to bring out the full diversity of opinion or lose their licenses.”

Source : Winter Soldier Testimony, 2008.
“The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause, the life within the outer form. Recording unfelt facts, acquired by rule, results in sterile inventory. To see the Thing Itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism - the casual noting of the superficial phase, a transitory mood.”
“My mouth is no prayer book, but my view is, I'd view addiction to these substances as a medical problem and I would treat it accordingly. What little I know about the history of drug control policy in the United States leaves me thinking that a hugely important moment came when the lawyers win out over the doctors on this matter.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“Even when I was close to defeat I rose to my feet”

Source : Song: Still D.R.E.-Feat. Snoop Dogg, Album: Dr. Dre 2001
“The diversification of the people's demand could not be followed by the state apparatus.”
“when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows", he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.”

Source : Randall Jarrell (1965). “A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables”
“Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily.”

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