"The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all."

-- Annie Dillard

#Writing Quotes #Secret Quotes

“During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.”
“We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.”
“The key to HIV/AIDS was to say let's give a patient multiple different therapies at the same time and that makes the virus much less likely to mutate.”

Source : Source: to.pbs.org
“Picture in your mind a sense of personal destiny.”
“The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.”
“Today (1950), the hatred of the Moslem countries against the West is becoming hatred against Christianity itself. Although the statesmen have not yet taken it into account, there is still grave danger that the temporal power of Islam may return and, with it, the menace that it may shake off a West which has ceased to be Christian, and affirm itself as a great anti-Christian world Power.”
“Do the thing and the power will come.”
“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”

Source : Ruskin Bond, Ruskin (2008). “Ruskin Bond's Book of Nature”, p.238, Penguin Books India

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