"I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership."

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Joshua Ferris

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Courage and conviction are powerful weapons...”
“[After college] I was going to study at the Sorbon and become a diplomat. Being a diplomat comes in handy when you are dealing with record companies.”
“The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.”
“I can train any dog in 5 minutes. It's training the owner that takes longer.”
“And one game, as we know, can cost you a lot.”
“Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital; it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge; the permanent officials.”
“Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out about new phenonoma and test new ideas...during this exploration, all the senses are used to observe and draw conclusions about objects and events through simple, if crude, scientific investigations.”
“What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”

Source : "Anthem for Doomed Youth" l. 1 (written 1917)

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