"Very few writers really know what they are doing until they have done it."

“Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.”
“I'm sure that Donald Trump's praise would lead to good relations with Vladimir Putin. But I think that's not what the American people expect from our foreign policy.”
“How strange and awful is the synthesis of life and death in the gusty winds and falling leaves of an autumnal day!”
“Self is the lord of self, who else could be the lord?.”
“I have remained true to my deepest convictions. I mean the courage of those who are born to be defeated, the weaknesses of the strong, and the tragedy of misunderstandings and missed opportunities, which I have done my best to treat as comedyâ€”for otherwise how can we manage to bear it?”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (2009). “A House of Air”, p.13, HarperCollins UK
“In the world today, a young lady who does not have a college education just is not educated.”
“Can any one deny that the old Israelites conceived Jahveh not only in the image of a man, but in that of a changeable, irritable, and, occasionally, violent man?”
“American men, as a group, seem to be interested in only two things, money and breasts. It seems a very narrow outlook.”

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