"For once the disease of reading has laid upon the system it weakens so that it falls an easy prey to that other scourge which dwells in the ink pot and festers in the quill. The wretch takes to writing."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Fall Quotes #Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.”
“I will sacrifice my comfort, my convenience, my economic position in order to stand in protest, but not impose that on everyone else.”
“It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.”
“Ask a fellow if he favors organized prayer in the public schools. If he says 'No' he's a liberal. If he says 'Yes' he's a conservative. If he says, 'Public schools? The Constitution grants the government no power to run any mandatory tax-funded youth propaganda camps,' you have your hands on the wily libertarian.”
“Achievements are precious and timeless, just like the precious metal platinum. And what better way to celebrate milestones in your life than with precious platinum.”
“I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.”

Source : Beverly Sills (1981). “Bubbles: an encore”
“Life pulls at bewildered humanity in so many ways! Blessed is the woman who makes her life a career of stimulating the courage of others.”
“I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.”

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