"Dare to tell the smallest of stories if you want to generate large emotions."

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Source : William Zinsser “The Writer Who Stayed”, Paul Dry Books

William Zinsser

#Want Quotes #Stories Quotes #Emotion Quotes

“The rage for wanting to conclude is one of the most deadly and most fruitless manias to befall humanity. Each religion and each philosophy has pretended to have God to itself, to measure the infinite, and to know the recipe for happiness. What arrogance and what nonsense! I see, to the contrary, that the greatest geniuses and the greatest works have never concluded.”
“Politicians are masters of sounding like they agree with you.”
“I don't really need new stuff anyway. I like to make big stuff, and it's too expensive to travel with. So I have my refined set that works well, and I'm pretty much set with that.”
“I've known people whose faces rested naturally in a smile and I'm certain their lives were much different because of that.”

Source : Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books
“Anthony Doerr again takes language beyond mortal limits.”
“A man who permits his honor to be taken, permits his life to be taken.”

Source : Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”
“This is crossing the Rubicon, after which there will be no more sovereign states in Europe with fully-fledged governments and parliaments which represent legitimate interests of their citizens, but only one State will remain. Basic things will be decided by a remote 'federal government' in Brussels and, for example, Czech citizens will be only a tiny particle whose voice and influence will be almost zero. ... We are against a European superstate.”
“One's conscience reproaches one much more stingingly for one's follies than one's crimes.”

Source : Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury (1892). “Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle”

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