"Writing is making sense of life."

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Nadine Gordimer

#Writing Quotes #Make Sense Quotes

“I really don't see myself in the Europa League and don't want to play in it. I couldn't care less about winning the trophy.”
“Your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.”

Source : "iHeartRadio Awards 2015: Justin Timberlake Addresses Critics, Says "Their Words Will Fade" by Meena Jang, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 29, 2015.
“When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved one hundred years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance!”
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.”

Source : Eudora Welty (1998). “Stories, Essays, and Memoir”
“It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.”
“How could you tell children they were playing with fire if theyÂ´d never had the experience of being burned?”

Source : Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.34, Macmillan
“What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.”

Source : Susanna Moodie (1853). “Life in the Clearings Versus the Bush”, p.304, London : R. Bentley
“It's not imperative that I graduate in four years, and it's not imperative that I get all A's.”

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