"A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off"

-- Archibald MacLeish

#Real Quotes #Boys Quotes #Apples Quotes

“I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.”
“Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.”
“The best picture has not yet been painted; the greatest poem is still unsung; the mightiest novel remains to be written; the divinest music has not been conceived, even by Bach. In science, probably ninety-nine percent of the knowable has not yet been discovered.”
“If President Bush is serious about genocide, an immediate priority is to stop the cancer of Darfur from spreading further, which means working with France to shore up Chad and the Central African Republic.”
“Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.”
“These old knights are more cunning than you think, or they would never have lived to see their first grey hair.”
“At every party there are two kinds of people - those who want to go home and those who don't. The trouble is, they are usually married to each other.”
“Life is a succession of lessons enforced by immediate reward, or, oftener, by immediate chastisement.”

Source : Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.49, Prabhat Prakashan

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