"Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder."

#Sight Quotes #Answers Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Don't forget to stop and smell the roses.”
“Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.”
“The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession.”
“The nicest notes I've received from readers are those that tell me I've gotten them back into reading for entertainment. For me, there is no greater compliment.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (2017). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.235, Penguin UK
“I am living today as someone I had not yet become yesterday and tonight I will borrow only pieces of who I am today to carry with me to tomorrow.”
“The human heart: its expansions and contractions its electrics and hydraulics the warm tides that move and fill it. For years Art had studied it from a safe distance from many perspectives...he listened in fascination and revulsion, in envy and pity. He dispensed canned wisdom, a little scripture. He sent them on their way with a prayer.”
“The writer's intention hasn't anything to do with what he achieves. The intent to earn money or the intent to be famous or the intent to be great doesn't matter in the end. Just what comes out.”
“Even a small match lit in a place of total darkness gives off a blinding light.”

Source : Richard Stearns (2014). “Stearns 2 in 1: The Hole in Our Gospel and Unfinished”, p.54, Harper Collins

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