"If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life."

-- Helen Hunt Jackson

#Uncles Quotes #Writing Quotes #Being Thankful Quotes

“Rock is much more malleable than ideas.”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “The Years of Rice and Salt”, p.447, Spectra
“Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other.”
“The police stopped me when I was out in my car. They told me it was a spot check. I admitted to two pimples and a boil.”
“I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some believe that the only way to remove the authoritarian regime and replace it with a democratic one is through violent means. I would like to set the precedent of political change through political settlement, not through violence.”
“Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.”
“Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.”
“What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1907). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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