"For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival."

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Source : Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

Wilfrid Sheed

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“I know people can be a little nervous about swimsuits, but have some fun with it. Believe you can hold it down. If you believe you can hold it down, you can wear it.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”

Source : Laura Ingalls Wilder, Stephen W. Hines (2008). “Laura Ingalls Wilder, farm journalist: writings from the Ozarks”, University of Missouri
“If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success.”

Source : Source: povmagazine.com
“Courage was mine, and I had mystery, Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery: To miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled.”

Source : Poems (1963 ed.) "Strange Meeting"
“I don't believe in sexual love.”
“The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.”
“There's not a long, entrenched tradition of theatergoing in Australia.”
“It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.”

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