"Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules."

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Source : Sarah Fielding, Christopher D. Johnson (1757). “The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia”, p.33, Bucknell University Press

Sarah Fielding

#Writing Quotes #Order Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Ridicule is a public confession of fear.”
“I am as far from a hypochondriac as you could ever be.”

Source : "My body & soul". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. August 16, 2008.
“Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.”
“In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.”
“There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.”
“What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.”
“I make the game easy. Double and triple me, I'll kick it out to you for a wide-open shot. I'll add years to your career.”
“... the Apostle says, 'he that says he abides in Christ ought himself also to walk as He walked' (I Jn. 2:6). Otherwise we make a vain pretence and show, if we follow not His steps, Whose name we glory in, and assuredly they would not be irksome to us, but would free us from all dangers, if we loved nothing but what He commanded us to love.”

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