"Consider the difference between the first and third person in poetry [...] It's like the difference between looking at a person and looking through their eyes."

-- Diana Abu-Jaber

#Eye Quotes #Differences Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“We need to move: from a spirituality of alienation from the natural world to a spirituality of intimacy with the natural world from a spirituality of the divine as revealed in words to a spirituality of the divine as revealed in the visible world about us..”
“I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Without knowledge and a workable plan, you are gambling, with little or no chance of success.”

Source : Robert G Allen “Nothing Down For The 2000's volume 2”, Creative Intertrade Systems
“The more important the emotion is, the fewer words required to express it: Will you go out with me? I think I like you. I care for you. I love you. Marry me. Goodbye.”
“Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains.”
“Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.”
“I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog.”
“I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.”

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