"It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible"

-- Italo Calvino

#Writing Quotes #Immensity Quotes

“She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a cafÃ© after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.”
“Anyone that knows me knows what I'm about, and I'm very much a British actor, a European actor.”
“The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.”
“Two things, Christian reader, particularly excite the will of man to good. A principle of justice is one, the other the profit we may derive therefrom. All wise men, therefore, agree that justice and profit are the two most powerful inducements to move our wills to any undertaking. Now, though men seek profit more frequently than justice, yet justice is in itself more powerful.”

Source : Venerable Louis of Granada, Aeterna Press (1851). “The Sinner's Guide”, p.5, Aeterna Press
“Waves keep coming, that's the one thing you can count on in life”
“I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.”
“Healing comes when we move away from the darkness and walk towards the light.”
“No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.”

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