"Writing for adults, you have to keep reminding them of what is going on. The poor things have given up using their brains when they read. Children you only need to tell things to once."

-- Diana Wynne Jones

#Children Quotes #Writing Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I just want to do what has to be done so much. I'll never understand why everyone else doesn't feel this way.”
“It is indeed impossible to describe reality 'in itself', but that does not mean that our lives are answerable to nothing but our own conventions and commitments. They are answerable to a way of things that transcends the reach of our conceptual schemes.”

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“So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.”

Source : Alfred Edersheim (2013). “Bible History: Old Testament”, p.489, Ravenio Books
“I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Microsoft has changed the way people think about computers.”

Source : Source: arfakarim.wordpress.com
“Awakening is not a thing. It is not a goal, not a concept. It is not something to be attained. It is a metamorphosis. If the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying â€˜And then I shall have wings and antennae,â€™ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.”
“Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?”

Source : "Lives". Book by Plutarch translated by Arthur Hugh Clough and John Dryden, 1942.
“In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.”

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