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“In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.”
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“Fanaticism, or, to call it by its milder name, enthusiasm, is only powerful and active so long as it is aggressive. Establish it firmly in power, and it becomes conservatism, whether it will or no.”
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“If I had ever really 'faced the facts' about myself, I never would have reached for even a zillionth of what I've managed to accomplish.”
Source : Bonnie Fuller (2006). “The Joys of Much Too Much: Go for the Big Life--the Great Career, the Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You've Ever Wanted (even If You're Afraid You Don't Have what it Takes)”, p.19, Simon and Schuster
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“What has happened to protesters in the past was that, basically, the government in 2012 put an end to a series of mass protests by changing laws, by making it possible to arrest anybody for protests, and by making basically a show of imprisoning not just protest leaders, and not specifically protest leaders, but activists, rank-and-file protest participants. That gets across the idea that anybody who joins a protest without being an organizer, without being a visible leader, risks arrest, and not risks just arrest, but years in a Russian jail.”
Source : Source: www.pbs.org
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“In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.”
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“It was a harder day's journey than yesterday's, for there were long and weary hills to climb; and in journeys, as in life, it is a great deal easier to go down hill than up. However, they kept on, with unabated perseverance, and the hill has not yet lifted its face to heaven that perseverance will not gain the summit of at last.”
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“You can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shanty of a consul in a foreign town.”
Source : O. Henry (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)”, p.874, Delphi Classics
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“Anger so clouds the mind that it cannot perceive the truth.”
