"I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously."

-- Christopher Hitchens

#Writing Quotes #Composing Quotes #Sentences Quotes

“Medicare debates in Congress should result in better Medicare benefits for all our nation's seniors. We're not asking for special treatment for rural America, just a fair deal.”
“Keep faith, trust to love, fight with honor, but fight to win,”
“TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.”
“The government was set to protect man from criminals, and the Constitution was written to protect man from the government.”

Source : Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.92, Penguin
“Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.”
“Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.”
“If you want to be loved, love.”
“In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it's a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn't describe the real world.”

Source : Maureen F. McHugh (1997). “China Mountain Zhang”, p.29, Macmillan

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