"Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it."

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Denis Johnson

#Writing Quotes #Publish Quotes

“Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom.”
“Making mental connections is our most crucial learning tool, the essence of human intelligence; to forge links; to go beyond the given; to see patterns, relationships, context.”

Source : Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher
“Texting is very loose in its structure. No one thinks about capital letters or punctuation when one texts, but then again, do you think about those things when you talk?”
“The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!”
“Defining marriage is a power that should be left to the states. Moreover, no state should be forced to recognize a marriage that is not within its own laws, Constitution, and legal precedents.”
“In many cases, the authorities can't really prove if the person is in danger or not, because they can't send a person to Afghanistan to investigate each and every case.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I don`t know how it would have gone, but I do know this - Mitt Romney was looking at running and the reason he decided not to run was because he decided that someone was unbeatable. That someone was Jeb Bush.”
“Femininity itself has become a brand, a narrow and shrinking formula of commoditised identity which can be sold back to women who have become alienated from their own power as living, loving, labouring beings.”

Source : Laurie Penny (2011). “Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism”, p.11, John Hunt Publishing

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