"people never write calmly but when they write indifferently."

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Mary Wortley Montagu

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Indifference Quotes

“An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.”
“We all came into this world naked. The rest is all drag.”
“It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.”
“Most Americans want a sense of privacy. A lot of us don't realize how much of our privacy we're exposing by the internet.”
“Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.”
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”
“Frasier' was a classy gig. I didn't for one minute think it was less prestigious or artistic than doing a play.”
“The biggest challenge in the research process is to let go, to stop, to say enough, and then to reduce all of that beloved labor down to a few succinct paragraphs that shape the background to your narrative. I love research - that's all the fun, especially in the field. To write, however, is to suffer, and my pieces usually come in thousands of words over the assigned length. That's a serious flaw in my writing process - shaping and disciplining the footlockers of material one has so happily gathered.”

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