"Step by step, we will break this cycle of silence, poor information and stigma."

-- Chevy Chase

#Silence Quotes #Information Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Poems reveal secrets when they are analyzed. The poet's pleasure in finding ingenious ways to enclose her secrets should be matched by the reader's pleasure in unlocking and revealing these secrets.”
“Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.”
“Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.”
“It is a negative sort of achievement, she thinks, to have spent a life warding something off.”

Source : Adam Haslett (2002). “You are Not a Stranger Here”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group
“Every fighter that ever lived had fear. A boy comes to me and tells me that he's not afraid, if I believed him I'd say he's a liar or there's something wrong with him. I'd send him to a doctor to find out what the hell's the matter with him, because this is not a normal reaction. The fighter that's gone into the ring and hasn't experienced fear is either a liar or a psychopath.”
“Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.”
“The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development”
“I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror . . . Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.”

Source : "Sviatoslav Richter: Notebooks and Conversations". Book by Bruno Monsaingeon, 2001.

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