"I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true."

-- Richard K. Morgan

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Definitions Quotes

“If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.”
“Nothing in the Constitution of the United States gives the Congress or the Executive Branch the power to attempt the task of regulating climate, as impossible as that would be under any realistic scenarios. No national security emergency exists relative to climate that would warrant increased governmental control of energy production. Today's Americans have an obligation to future Americans to elect leaders who do not believe in an omnipotent government but believe, as did the Founders, in limited government, and in the preservation of liberty and the natural rights of the people.”
“One thing to remember on the Eiger, never look up, or you may need a plastic surgeon.”
“Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.”
“You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.”
“New York was big enough and wide enough that it allowed for reasonably eccentric people like me to thrive. It was a perfect place for me.”

Source : Source: classic.esquire.com
“Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?”

Source : Michelle Cliff (2009). “Everything is Now: New and Collected Stories”, p.95, U of Minnesota Press
“And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say, and others like dead people lying on the grass. I went on among them, though they frightened me, and my heart was full of wicked song they put into it; and I wanted to make faces and twist myself about the way they did, and I went on and on a long way till at last I liked the rocks and they didnâ€™t frighten me any more”

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