"I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it."

-- Wendy Cope

#Writing Quotes #Two Quotes #Upset Quotes

“Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.”
“No more, no less. I'm an idiot. I really need to let this crush go.”
“The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.”
“Every evil screams only one message: 'I am good.'”
“Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.”
“She was nervous about the future; it made her indelicate. She was one of the most unimportantly wicked women of her time --because she could not let her time alone, and yet could never be a part of it. She wanted to be the reason for everything and so was the cause of nothing. She had the fluency of tongue and action meted out by divine providence to those who cannot think for themselves. She was the master of the over-sweet phrase, the over-tight embrace.”

Source : Djuna Barnes, Thomas Stearns Eliot (2006). “Nightwood”, p.74, New Directions Publishing
“I'm still fly, I'm sky high and I dare anybody to try and cut my wings”
“The rare individuals who unselfishly try to serve others have an enormous advantage-they have little competition.”

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