"I wrote for many years without showing my writing to anyone, because I was constantly comparing it to what I was reading. You have to compare yourself to the best and feel totally inadequate."

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Pankaj Mishra

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“But you have to figure that if itâ€™s too hard to hang on, then maybe you should let go.”
“God shall be my last discovery.”
“I definitely have had friendships and moments with people from different backgrounds and in different stages of their lives.”
“Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.”
“Beckon The Sea, I'll Come To The.... Shed Seven Tears, Perchance Seven Years....”
“The message of [Fahernheit 9/11] is very weak and propagandistic ... We were used to such messages in the communist days. Everybody has open eyes and can understand that this is propaganda. It was a weak film that tells us nothing new.”
“The refined simplicity should develop out of the complex. It would have been more logical if silent pictures had grown out of the talkie instead of the other way around.”

Source : "Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood". Book by Eileen Whitfield, 1997.
“There have been women who stumbled across Feministing randomly, through a bizarre Google search or something, and had no idea what feminism was. They thought it was something older women do, or bought into the hairy bra-burning man-hating stereotype 100 percent. Anything that deviates from that is very exciting for them.”

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