"Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other."

-- Rebecca Solnit

#Writing Quotes #Elements Quotes #Narrative Quotes

“Brushes are crucial for applying glazes, sauces, and oils. The pastry brushes that you find in homestores can be pricey so pay a visit to your local hardware store and pick up a few paint brushes which are less expensive and work equally as well.”

Source : Bobby Flay (2010). “Bobby Flay's Grill It!”, p.21, Clarkson Potter
“I don't think I've played a lot of crazy people.”

Source : Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. March 9, 2010.
“Writing New People I was thinking a lot about the era that I came of age - the 90's. Brooklyn, in particular, this moment when I lived there. The sense of possibility. I was also trying to find a way to write about Jonestown. I had read about it a lot and I had the sense that the story could really start to drive one over the edge.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs.”
“The secret of successful people lies in their ability to discover their strengths and to organize their life so that these strengths can be applied.”
“We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.”
“I couldn't bear a marriage in which one partner hinges on the other.”
“Publicity is the only thing some people fear. An aroused public opinion has been the cause of most reforms. Telling the truth is perhaps the pacifist's only weapon. Over and over again, even the suggestion that one may publish the facts has changed a scornful, bullying opponent into an almost subservient helper. But how dangerous it is!”

Source : Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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