"My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told."

-- Stevie Smith

#Wish Quotes #Cold Quotes #Muse Quotes

“Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.”
“Don't give up! You're too talented. You're too good!”
“Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are other players are good enough as you and you should never speak out of an orchestra.”
“I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for working on the Sabbath or switching on a light on the Sabbath. So the point is that you can find good bits of the Bible but you have to cherry-pick, you have reject the nasty bits and pick the nice bits.”
“Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?”
“The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.”
“This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are.”

Source : Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.9, Del Rey
“Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality, defining a sexual self, making sexual choices and learning to enjoy sex. The other issue concerns the dangers girls face of being sexually assaulted. By late adolescence, most girls today either have been traumatized or know girls who have. They are fearful of males even as they are trying to develop intimate relations with them.”

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