"Your literary style reflects your personality."

-- Louis Auchincloss

#Personality Quotes #Style Quotes #Literary Style Quotes

“The Bhagavad Gitaâ€”that ancient Indian Yogic textâ€”says that it is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody elseâ€™s life with perfection. So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly.”
“We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“Now that judges embrace forcibly starving someone to death, Congress should use its appropriation power to starve the judicial budget.”
“Writing can be wonderful therapy, and cheap at the price. At the very least, you eventually get bored by thinking about anxious topics and move on.”

Source : Ralph Keyes (2003). “The Courage to Write: How Writers Transcend Fear”, p.91, Macmillan
“The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.”
“Somebody who sticks to his guns can be called a stubborn person or a principled person, it depends on whether you like his ideas or not. You can call somebody whose ideas you don't like an ideologist or a person of ideas. You can call somebody whose actions you don't like a pragmatist if you like them, or an opportunist if you don't.”
“The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.”
“To live greatly, you have to risk greatly.”

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