"I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer."

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Will Eisner

#Writing Quotes #Honest Quotes

“Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.”
“Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.”

Source : John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218
“There is no evidence for a god, no coherent definition of a god, no good argument for a god, good positive arguments against a god, no agreement among believers about the nature or moral principles of a god, and no need for a god. We can live happy, moral, productive lives without such belief, and we can do it better.”
“Become important to others.”
“Being anti-social can also mean that you're aware of how annoying it is to be social.”
“I'm very about football and very about my job, which doesn't get reported or won't get reported, but I am going to enjoy my time off. That's I think what everybody else does, and that's what I should do.”
“It makes me so much calmer when Iâ€™m responding to e-mails later.”

Source : "Silicon Valley Says Step Away From the Device" By Matt Richtel, www.nytimes.com. July 23, 2012.
“The Roman Pontiffs have always...held that all those rites should be preserved which deviate neither from accuracy in matters of faith, nor from what is fitting.”

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