"All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance."

-- Ralph Ellison

#Men Quotes #Minorities Quotes #Individual Quotes

“If you pray enough for things, I am proof that they can happen. I feel like a kid on Christmas day now, every day. It's something I have wanted for a long time and I am as happy as anyone to be here. It is great to be back at my first love.”
“Despite all my public misconduct, in the past year, I had learned the Elemental spells, the DoppelschlÃ¤ferin, and the preparation and flying of a magic broom; I had survived two months as prisoner of war, saving the life of captain Johanne in the process; I had escaped the dungeons of Fortress Drachensbett, and after an arduous journey successfully reunited with my double, so preserving her, and all Montagne, from Prince Flonian's rapacity, I would somehow master the despicable art of being a princess.”
“I sometimes feel tired. But there are so many reasons for being tired.”
“You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.”
“As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough â€“ I wrote faster than I would write a letter â€“ two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.”
“A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's why you have to write." You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“Everyone has the answers.”
“There is no greater illness than discouragement!”

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