"Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift."

-- Harriet McBryde Johnson

#Loss Quotes #Survival Quotes #Remember Quotes

“Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.”
“Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.”

Source : Ana Castillo (2008). “Loverboys”, p.87, W. W. Norton & Company
“We don't have a choice on whether we DO social media, the question is how well we do it.”

Source : Erik Qualman (2010). “Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business”, p.286, John Wiley & Sons
“I never wanted to be a writer; I just had stories I needed to tell.”
“Why do photographers start giving numbers to their prints? Itâ€™s absurd. What do you do when the 20th print has been done? Do you swallow the negative? Do you shoot yourself? Itâ€™s the gimmick of money.”
“Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences.”
“Newspapers have been likened to steamships that move very slowly, in terms of their direction. And when a reporter is sent out on a story, if that reporter has his or her own personal standards and is given a certain amount of time, they're going to probably do as good a story yesterday or tomorrow as they did the day before yesterday when there was a different editor there. But an editor provides vision. An editor decides what's going to be on page one, what gets rewarded, who's given more time, who's given what beats. They set a direction.”
“Like a stand of lodgepole pines in a gale Raisa's followers all went down leaving her standing alone....There's no shelter for me not from any of this. I'll stand alone the rest of my life. THE GRAY WOLF THRONE p. 163”

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