"Don't pass it by--the immediate, the real, the only, the yours."

-- Henry James

“Shall I project a world?”
“Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.”

Source : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.52, Oxford University Press
“I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.”
“Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen.”
“If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.”
“I'm an accomplice to helping women get what they want.”
“Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides”
“Children bring their own love with them when they come.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1874). “The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow”, p.17

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