"Obviously all writers, all artists, have their own internal critics; as they write they are being self-critical."

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Source : "The SRB Interview: Edna and Michael Longley". Scottish Review of Books Interview, www.scottishreviewofbooks.org. October 19, 2009.

Edna Longley

#Writing Quotes #Artist Quotes #Self Quotes

“A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.”
“The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.”
“One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.”
“Maybe violent wickedness can be decapitated, but stupidity has too many heads.”
“In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.”
“Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Maybe it's because I'm getting older, I'm finding enjoyment in things that stop time. Just the simple act of tasting a glass of wine is its own event. You're not downing a glass of wine in the midst of doing something else.”

Source : "Locations: A Wine Life Hack" by Tara Fass, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 25, 2016.
“In my teens, I joined the Parachute Regiment. I jumped out of lots of airplanes, as much as the Government budget would allow us to. I did two active tours of duty: Northern Ireland, and then the Falklands war.”

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