"If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read."

-- Walt Kelly

#Writing Quotes #Letters Quotes #Nasty Quotes

“I said, 'George, if you really want to end tyranny in this world, you're going to have to stay up later.' Nine o'clock and Mr. Excitement here is sound asleep ...”
“Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!”
“People wait for something to happen in order to be happy; the key is to be happy regardless.”
“I'm always interested in an atmosphere where dreams and reality mingle on equal terms.”

Source : "Watch a New Video for Sigur Rós' "Varúð", Directed by Ryan McGinley" by Crrie Battan, pitchfork.com. July 31, 2012.
“But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.17, Transaction Publishers
“[Wise men] have tried to understand our state of being, by grasping at its stars, or its arts, or its economics. But, if there is an underlying oneness of all things, it does not matter where we begin, whether with stars, or laws of supply and demand, or frogs, or Napoleon Bonaparte. One measures a circle, beginning anywhere.”

Source : Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.5, Lulu.com
“But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn't it?”

Source : N. K. Jemisin (2010). “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”, p.97, Hachette UK
“Meetings ... are rather like cocktail parties. You don't want to go, but you're cross not to be asked.”

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