"I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature."

-- Susan Sontag

#Writing Quotes #Literature Quotes #Audience Quotes

“Allah created the bonds of family, so Who are you to cut bonds that Allah has created.”
“Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies. Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.”
“Your hand is a warm stone I hold between two words.”
“We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2004). “Thieves' Paradise”, p.171, Penguin
“I have never enjoyed an experience that begins at five A.M.”
“Poetry evokes out of words the resonance of the primordial world.”
“I tend to be much more in the present and my emotions are simpler. I can be happy, I can be sad, I can be depressed, but there's a complexity that I don't have. I don't brood the same way. Fear is my main emotion.”
“I'm not a fast driver. I've seen what speed can do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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