"Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion."

-- Walter Jon Williams

#Choices Quotes #Irresistible Quotes #Compulsion Quotes

“In any relationship, the woman has control, the clever ones don't let the men know.”
“Raising a daughter is an extremely political act in this culture. Mothers have been placed in a no-win situation with their daught ers: if they teach their daughters simply how to get along in a world that has been shaped by men and male desires, then they betray their daughters' potential But, if they do not, they leave their daughters adrift in a hostile world without survival strategies.”
“Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.”
“Hope is the last thing that dies in man.”
“Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.”
“But, Lord Crist! whan that it remembreth me Upon my yowthe, and on my jolitee, It tickleth me aboute myn herte roote. Unto this day it dooth myn herte boote That I have had my world as in my tyme. But age, alias! that al wole envenyme, Hath me biraft my beautee and my pith. Lat go, farewel! the devel go therwith! The flour is goon, ther is namoore to telle; The bren, as I best kan, now most I selle.”
“One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it.”
“Thoughts there are, that need no embodying, no form, no expression. It is enough to hint at them vaguely; a word, and they are heard and seen.”

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