"Writers have no real area of expertise. They are merely generalists with a highly inflamed sense of punctuation."

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Lorrie Moore

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Punctuation Quotes

“Businessmen... were not born chief executives. They were often people first.”
“I was you and never knew it.”
“To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.”
“To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.”

Source : Letter to Julia Ward Howe on her 70th birthday, 27 May (1889)
“Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not "a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.”
“You Call This One And It's All Over, Baby!”
“Forget the Beatles and all the rest. This is the real Liverpool sound. It's real singing, and it's what the Kop is all about.”
“Will someone else's life be brighter tomorrow, because of what you have done today?”

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