"I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I am familiar with big words, I am interested in trying to render big ideas in a simple way. I am interested in being understood not admired."

-- Lucille Clifton

#Writing Quotes #Simple Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“At this, Constance sat down on a rock and covered her face. She seemed smaller than ever now - so small the harbor breeze might catch her up like a scrap of paper and carry her away, carry her into nowhere.”
“He who feasts every day, feasts no day.”

Source : Charles Simmons (1852). “Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker”, p.193
“Actresses are such very dull people off the stage. We are only delightful and brilliant when we are doing what we are told to do. Off stage we are awful chumps.”

Source : "Dame Edith Evans, Ned's girl". Book by Bryan Forbes, Chapter 12, 1977.
“History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.”
“New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.”
“I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.”
“I will always be a partner with the president of the United States.”
“A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.”

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