"I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir."

-- Mitch Albom

#Writing Quotes #Grades Quotes #Memoir Quotes

“Is it better to go with the flow or let the flow go?”

Source : Aidan Chambers (1999). “Postcards from No Man's Land: A Novel”, Random House (UK)
“When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.”
“For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.”
“All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning”
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”

Source : Jack Gilbert (2013). “The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992”, p.11, Knopf
“Debts and lies are generally mixed together.”

Source : "Pantagruel". Book by Francois Rabelais, Book III, Chapter V, 1532.
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”

Source : "The New Freedom : A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People" by Woodrow Wilson, (p. 13), 1913.
“A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.”

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