"Writing never came naturally and I still have to force my hand to do it."

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Richard Ford

#Writing Quotes #Hands Quotes #Force Quotes

“Where lies our salvation? You asked. We do not need any salvation. Does not our end lie on this beginning shore?”

Source : Kofi Awoonor (1987). “Until the morning after: selected poems, 1963-85”, Greenfield Review Pr
“For most people, religion is nothing more than a substitute for a malfunctioning brain. If people need religion, ignore them and maybe they will ignore you, and you can go on with your life. It wasn't until I was beginning to do Star Trek that the subject of religion arose. What brought it up was that people were saying that I would have a chaplain on board the Enterprise. I replied, "No, we don't.”
“There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.”
“Happiness must be grown in one's own garden.”
“But of course you can have your cake and eat it, too - if you decide to to bake a second cake. And you may well find that baking two cakes does not take twice the work of baking one.”

Source : Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.14, University of Pennsylvania Press
“Give me a man with big hands and big feet and no brains and I'll make a golfer out of him.”

Source : Quoted in Michael Hobbs The Golf Quotation Book (1992).
“Humor, danger and a twisted tangle of unlikely prophecies make for a page-turning adventure.”
“If the lyrics have meaning to it and it gives me a certain emotion, I think that's the most beautiful part about music - you can feel it and connect to it.”

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