"Before using a fine word, make a place for it."

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Joseph Joubert

#Writing Quotes #Fine Quotes

“Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair.”
“A novelist is someone who sits around the house all day in his underwear, trying not to smoke.”
“To accuse me of making sensations is the easiest way of attacking me, and in reality leaves the question of sculpture untouched.”

Source : Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.33, Read Books Ltd
“Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me ... that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.”
“Opening a play is just tough. The idea that actors are weirdly protected from it is a myth. If you imagine yourself having to spend two and a bit hours cooking bolognaise, remembering a whole major work by David Hare and speaking it at the correct moment between chopping carrots and stirring the onions in front of an audience - the normal human response is 'Please, can I go to the airport?'”
“Kings fear change. Leaders crave it.”
“I thought I told you to wait in the car.”
“The subjective element in geological studies accounts for two characteristic types that can be distinguished among geologists. One considering geology as a creative art, the other regarding geology as an exact science.”

Source : "Methods of Prospection for Chromite" by Robert Woodtli, (p. 80), 1964.

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