"Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left."

-- Robert Staughton Lynd

#Drama Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Epic Quotes

“Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

Source : "To Kill a Mockingbird". Book by Harper Lee, community.sparknotes.com. July 11, 1960.
“We had Americans gather together in prayer, before they went to stand before the federal government ... that prayed for peace, that there wouldn't be confrontation.”
“You don't have a baby based on that publicity madness. People don't live like that. Especially black people who were raised in families with morals and standards and integrity.”
“CÃ©zanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.”
“Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all.”
“If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.”

Source : "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.
“Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go; wash them clean with tears, Leave them to bleach out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,â€” But we forget not, never can forget.”

Source : "A Flower of a Day". Poem by Dinah Maria Mulock, webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu. 1866.
“I could be like everyone else and stop eating, but that wouldn't make me happy.”

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