"If you would write emotionally, be first unemotional. If you would move your readers to tears, do not let them see you cry."

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Source : James J. Kilpatrick (2010). “The Writer's Art”, p.128, Andrews McMeel Publishing

James J. Kilpatrick

#Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes #Tears Quotes

“We stand firmly behind the decision made at the summit in Bucharest where it was decided that Ukraine could one day become a member of NATO. That is not only in the interest of Ukraine, but also in the interest of Europe and peace on our continent. But we also know it will take a long time until Ukraine fulfills the standards for NATO membership.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“I am an atheist and I consider religions to be a form of collective neurosis. I am not an enemy of the Catholics, as I am not an enemy of the tuberculars, the myopic or the paralytics; you cannot be an enemy of the sick, only their good friend in order to help them cure themselves.”
“The German health care system is unique in its attempt to combine competition among sickness funds on the one hand and a universal coverage plan on the other hand. Most health care systems are either one or the other, so you either have private insurance and competition but not everyone is covered for everything, or you have a single-payer system. So the ideal types are like the American system on the one hand or the Scandinavian or U.K. systems on the other end. Germany tries to combine the advantages.”

Source : "Frontline", www.pbs.org. October 25, 2007.
“If there is any reason to single out artists as being more necessary to our lives than any others, it is because they provide us with light that cannot be extinguished. They go into dark rooms and poke at their souls until the contours of our own are familiar to us.”
“Wherever is your heart I call home.”

Source : Song: Wherever Is Your Heart, Album: The Firewatcher's Daughter, 2015
“To watch how lovingly your children parent their own children is to know profound achievement.”
“I'm not trying to spell out a story. I still think you feel the painting, and the reason you read the mark is because you also feel the mark.”
“During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable.”

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