"And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying."

-- Helene Cixous

#Writing Quotes #Wings Quotes #Bird Quotes

“My mother and father were interested in the arts.”
“It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.178
“There are lots of stories about my culture that I think bring a whole other perspective to who we are and where we have been and how we got here that I think need to be done.”

Source : Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.31, Polity
“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .”
“For if not true, they are well imagined...”
“So though there are many things I would have done differently, I submit to God's sovereignty and His purpose in my life and I thank Him that He brought me the way He brought me and gave me what He gave me when He thought I could handle it.”
“You can't win without the ball.”
“No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth (1832). “Tales of Fashionable Life: The absentee, ch. 6-17”, p.146

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