"One writes not by will but by surrender."

-- Erica Jong

#Writing Quotes #Surrender Quotes

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.”
“That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the heart of the laws which structure his conformity and define his deviancy.”

Source : "Sisters in Crime: The Rise of the New Female Criminal". Book by Freda Adler, 1975.
“When someone is in your heart, they're never truly gone. They can come back to you, even at unlikely times.”
“Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.”
“Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind...”
“I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.”

Source : "KFC dishes up Colonel Sanders' autobiography for free" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2012.
“When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool”

Source : Sydney Smith (1852). “The letters of Peter Plymley, essays, and speeches”, p.34
“There's a reason why the form was originally silent”

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