"America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind."

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Ellen Glasgow

#Blessing Quotes #America Quotes #Track Quotes

“I remember quite well that 10,000 audience sang with us three on the spot, and ever since then, I always thought the Chinese audience are the greatest audience.”
“Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.”
“In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.”
“Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items.”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
“You're mad 'cause my style you're admiring. Don't be mad, UPS is hiring.”
“When I finally had the chance to make my childhood dream a reality - as a co-founder and chairman of Moon Express - my goal was to broaden participation in lunar exploration, and connect the common person to its results. We plan to send robotic rovers - not humans - to the Moon to search for precious metals and rare minerals on the Moon's surface.”
“Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.”

Source : 'Chrestoleros' (1598) bk. 7, epigram 9
“By sixteen I thought, "Ah, this is all crap, you're all sheep, I'm not going to church, leave me alone." And then at a certain point in my teens I started to go to Catholic churches, by myself. Not because I wanted to be Catholic, but because I wanted to light a candle and say something like a prayer and just sit there. There was something I was missing or trying to reconnect with. But it was a secret at the time. I'd developed this cynical persona and the last thing I wanted to admit was that I was skulking around churches in my spare time.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

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