"The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will."

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Source : Ted Dekker (2006). “Showdown”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

Ted Dekker

#Writing Quotes #Discovery Quotes #Four Quotes

“Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.”
“poetry ... shows with a sudden intense clarity what is already there.”

Source : Helen Smith Bevington (1961). “When Found, Make a Verse of”
“If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.”
“Israel is no longer a people that dwells alone, and has to join the global journey toward peace, reconciliation and international cooperation.”

Source : Yitzhak Rabin, Efraim Inbar, Merkaz Besa le-meḥḳarim asṭraṭegiyim (1996). “Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli national security: special memorial issue”
“Rather than starting a new inferno in Iraq, our energies would have been better spent in extinguishing the existing fire in Palestine.”
“At the very time that Congress is considering a Bush administration request to equip our troops in Iraq with vehicles that are more resistant to roadside bombs, its leadership is fighting for a proposal that would have the opposite effect on roads here at home: a measure sought by environmentalists that would force automakers to make vehicles sold domestically much lighter and, thus, more vulnerable in collisions.”
“Maggie Smith has a unique sense of comedy, based on a somewhat ironic view of real life, making it both funnier and more sad. But perhaps her greatest ability, or at least the one that most intrigues me, is how she can convey deep and powerful emotion without a trace of sentimentality.”
“I can cook really well. I started cooking as a kid, so I can fend for myself in the kitchen and even do a little gourmet action.”

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