"The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter."

-- Edward Albee

#Writing Quotes #Optimism Quotes #Matter Quotes

“True philosophy invents nothing; it merely establishes and describes what is.”
“The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.”

Source : Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“Samuel Beckett once said, "Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness." ...On the other hand, he SAID it.”
“I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.”

Source : Katharine Butler Hathaway (2000). “The Little Locksmith: A Memoir”, p.14, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“A lot of times we set ourselves up to fail. It's interesting. A lot of times the resolutions we choose are the ones, like you said in the opening, we keep breaking over and over again. Sometimes it reflects parts of ourselves that we really need to accept instead of trying to change.”
“If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”

Source : Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill
“This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.”
“I didn't like children. I didn't think of myself as a child. I didn't like any of the things other children were interested in.”

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