"I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous."

-- Saul Bellow

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“I don't get a lot of romantic comedy scripts.”
“If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.”
“We did not purify [isolate] ... We saw some particles but they did not have the morphology [shape] typical of retroviruses ... They were very different ... What we did not have, as I have always recognized it, is that it was truly the cause of AIDS.”
“Every time you try to encourage someone else, your own soul will be flooded with a light and glow of peace and good cheer.”
“We have to get better at that. All of the Stanley Cup winning teams throughout the past few seasons, when they needed to play defense, they did it. If you can play defense, that's when you know it's game over.”
“I have a girlfriend. I give my heart to her. She's around, she's everywhere, we travel together. She's beautiful, she's gorgeous, she's everything you want in a woman. She doesn't complain.. but I can tune her out just enough.”
“Growing up as a child actress, there was much I got to do and yet so much that I missed out on. Therefore, when I had kids, I made it a point to make sure that they could do anything and everything that they dreamed of. A great education was definitely right at top of my list!”
“Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.”

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