"There are many more want-to-be writers out there than good editors."

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Stephen Ambrose

#Editors Quotes #Want Quotes

“The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.”

Source : Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.116, Macmillan
“Things are fragile, but we're all being carried and I think we're all on our path in that sense. As fragile as things are, we're still getting there.”
“Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”

Source : "Me Before You". Book by Jojo Moyes, January 5, 2012.
“There is a tendency under capitalism system to reduce everything to a kind of commodity fetish, and this order tends to promote extremely conventional and uniform expressions of gender and sexuality in order to promote certain products and lifestyle choices that are commercialized. This necessarily entails a capitulation to heteronormativity, or in the case of the new gay movement, a "homonormativity" that doesn't stray far from the heterosexual paradigm. Anyone who questions these normative values and conventions is subject to disapproval, hostility, or even violence.”
“I'm good man, repin' Baton Rouge, Louisiana to the fullest. Lettin' everybody know that I got some new heat comin' to the streets.”

Source : Source: djbooth.net
“Also, an area that interests me - and it will probably take years to state what I mean - is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.”
“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”
“For an hour or more he was neither human nor vampire, just a howling, hungry creature of dark delights.”

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