"I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Night Quotes #Voice Quotes #Fire Quotes

“We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.”

Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.550, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
“Words can never really help you say, what you want them to anyway. And words can never really help you see, what you really want to be.”

Source : "Song: 'Midnight' ('The Poets And The Prophet')". 2005.
“Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.”

Source : "Ukrainian Statehood in the Twentieth Century: Historical and Political Analysis". Book by Viktor Adamsky, 1996.
“You start where you can get an opportunity, you take everything that you can do to gain entrance. You do the little work and you try to find people who can teach you.”
“Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.”
“I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.”

Source : FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 04, 2012
“Don't fight a fact, deal with it.”
“A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it.”

Source : Nina Bawden (2011). “In My Own Time: Almost an Autobiography”, p.99, Hachette UK

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