"I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought."

-- Bernard Malamud

#Flower Quotes #Language Quotes

“Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.”
“When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.”
“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”
“U2 and folks like that. They all have that similar drive and that belief in themselves. They're early birds ... they're up working when everyone else is sleeping. They're simply all great at what they do.”

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“Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.”

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“Maybe thatâ€™s why Iâ€™ve made it as far as I have â€“ 2,521 miles. If I ran to a doctor every time I got a little cyst or abrasion Iâ€™d still be in Nova Scotia. Or else Iâ€™d never have started. Iâ€™ve seen people in so much pain. The little bit of pain Iâ€™m going through is nothing. They canâ€™t shut it off, and I canâ€™t shut down every time I feel a little sore.”
“I think death is not simply the last few moments of life, death is something that runs throughout the whole of life. Each of our moments is not only the possibility of affirmation, but it's also we're saying farewell at each moment to something.”
“Itâ€™s impossible to read The Poison Belt, written in 1913, and not see in its exterminating vision a shadow of the coming war that would, only slightly less effectively, destroy Conan Doyleâ€™s world.”

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