"A good [short story] would take me out of myself and then stuff me back in, outsized, now, and uneasy with the fit."

-- David Sedaris

#Writing Quotes #Insightful Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.”
“Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind.”
“I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.”
“Assuredly it would be a pity if laughter should ever become, like rhetoric and the arts, a habit.”

Source : Alice Meynell (1925). “Essays”
“I was told that my going to college wouldn't be good for my career. I think that's nonsense. It's good to empower yourself by cutting yourself off from this business every once in a while.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths.”
“The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.”
“People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they didn't see the work. I have seen critics print stuff about stuff I cut out of the film before we ran it. So don't tell me about critics.”

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