"Some truth has no nourishment in it."

-- Alice Childress

#Nourishment Quotes

“My thing is just staying positive.Â Find that thing you love doing and dedicate yourself to it.Â You're going to have to sacrifice a lot of things if you want to achieve the goals you want to achieve.”
“People are experience-rich and theory-poor.”

Source : "The man who can't stop thinking" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.
“I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.”
“The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?”
“Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.”
“Unless you're involved with thinking about what you're doing, you end up doing the same thing over and over, and that becomes tedious and, in the end, defeating.”
“Reason, you'll always be half-blind.”

Source : Marguerite Porete, Ellen L. Babinsky (1993). “The Mirror of Simple Souls”, p.1, Paulist Press
“Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.”

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