"I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope."

-- Stanley Elkin

#Writing Quotes #Rope Quotes #Ends Quotes

“â€ŽWhen you point your finger at someone, anyone, it is often a moment of judgement. We point our fingers when we want to scold someone, point out what they have done wrong. But each time we point, we simultaneously point three fingers back at ourselves.”
“A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.”
“One may always attempt as much insight, love, freedom of thought and expression, justice and tolerance as possible for oneself and the very few people who share one's truest life. To be a 'free lord' in secret is better than being a public slave, a willing accomplice of repression and injustice.”
“What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money ... but it is absurd to take money too seriously, to confuse it with real wealth ... In somewhat the same way, thoughts, ideas and words are "coins" for real things.”
“They had always told me that I wrote like a man.”
“When war is declared, truth is the first casualty”

Source : "Falsehood in Wartime". Book by Arthur Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby of Shulbrede, 1928.
“You make choices, as a young man. I knew I wanted to be an actor, so I pursued that, but the desire to compete still stayed with me.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.”

Source : "River of Smoke". Book by Amitav Ghosh, 2011.

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