"Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain false order upon the endless, and endlessly frustrating, nature of thought."

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Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.22, Rowman & Littlefield

Mark Kingwell

#Struggle Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.”
“Strive to realize a state of inward happiness, independent of circumstances.”
“It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and cutting something immediately if it doesn't feel true. I come from a family of musicians and - while I have no musical abilities of my own - I think I inherited a good ear.”
“Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.”
“Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.”

Source : James A. Michener (2014). “The Drifters: A Novel”, p.528, Dial Press
“God's way of making separation with children easier was to invent adolescence.”
“The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.”
“The indiscreet questioner - and by indiscreet questions I mean questions which it is not conceivably a man's duty either to the community or to any individual to answer - is a marauder, and there is every excuse for treating him as such.”

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