"To defend what you've written is a sign that you are alive."

-- William Zinsser

#Writing Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.”
“If people don't have their own vision, all they can do is 'sign-up' for someone else's.”
“Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case.”

Source : John Gierach (1990). “Sex, death, and fly-fishing”, Fireside
“Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.”
“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”

Source : "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.
“We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.”
“Do you know that I was the anchor on the 'CBS Morning Show?' And my newsman was Walter Cronkite.”
“I think drugs are like strawberries and peaches.”

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