"Sleep on your writing; take a walk over it; scrutinize it of a morning; review it of an afternoon; digest it after a meal; let it sleep in your drawer a twelvemonth; never venture a whisper about it to your friend, if he be an author especially."

-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes #Sleep Quotes

“When you give in to aversion and anger, itâ€™s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.”
“Voroshilov was a striking figure, with a great deal of influence among the workers, so that the degree of influence of the committee on the workers and its success as regards recruitment depended primarily on him.”
“I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.”
“The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.”
“Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.”

Source : Prince Norodom Sihanouk (2005). “Shadow Over Angkor: Memoirs of His Majesty King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia : from Original Transcript of "The Cup to the Dregs"”
“I talked about the barriers created by monopolies. I said that it was the role of government to break up these monopolies and that we couldn't do it alone.”
“You will not be stuck forever. The trick is to know there are no tricks. There is, in fact, no easy way. There is only the work.”
“C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.”

Source : Message to gmane.comp.version-control.git mailing list, article.gmane.org, September 9, 2007.

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