"These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them."

-- Linwood Barclay

#Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes #People Quotes

“Teachers are not glorified babysitters with summers off. Their profession fuels all others, and on a normal day that is amazing enough in and of itself.”

Source : "The courage of teachers" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2013.
“It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.”
“We are all leaders-whether we want to be or not. There is always someone we are influencing-either leading them to good-or away from good.”
“Meow, Meow, Motherfucker.”
“I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.”
“Ours is the first age in history which has asked the child what he would tolerate learning.”
“What's the point of thinking about how it's going to end when it's just the beginning?”
“I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so.”

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