"The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases."

-- John Mason Brown

#Writing Quotes #Vanity Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.”

Source : Carolyn Warner (2010). “The Words of Extraordinary Women”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com
“At some point my friends and I began to ask, how can a country that produced hippies and such cool people also fight a war and kill people and act cruelly? You would see American GMC trucks go by and soldiers reaching down to whack a girl riding a bicycle. They would yank at her hat and she would get thrown and she would die. You would see Americans do this and feel like they can do anything in our country. But then you'd take an English class with an American soldier from Ohio who seemed just as nice as anyone, yet he was a soldier too.”
“As long as you are good you will be great. But, if you cease to be good you will cease to be great.”
“All we have-ourselves-to Him, and if that be all, that is enough.”
“... strike the words "white male" from all your constitutions, and then, with fair sailing, let us sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish together.”
“All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.”
“I looked back at the summit of the mountain, which seemed but a cubit high in comparison with the height of human contemplation, were in not too often merged in the corruptions of the earth.”
“I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.”

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