"To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything."

-- Eugene Delacroix

#Writing Quotes #Understood Quotes

“Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.”
“A few years ago, they [Neandertals] were thought to be ancestral to anatomically modern humans, but now we know that modern humans appeared at least 100,000 years ago, much before the disappearance of the Neandertals. Moreover, in caves in the Middle East, fossils of modern humans have been found dated 120,000-100,000 years ago, as well as Neandertals dated at 60,000 and 70,000 years ago, followed again by modern humans dated at 40,000 years ago. It is unclear whether the two forms repeatedly replaced one another by migration from other regions, or whether they coexisted in some areas”
“We can bring to earth a new world from the ashes of the old because our union transforms us the powerless into the powerful. And I ask you to join together in using all that power-all that strength to make the dreams of all workers and communities around the world come true.”
“When you enter a casino, remember that you are entering a place of business run by very shrewd business people who understand human emotions.”
“People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.”
“I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.”
“At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.”
“More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.”

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