"I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp."

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Source : Twitter post from Mar 22, 2014

Claire Cameron

#Writing Quotes #Caves Quotes #Done Quotes

“I can't keep protecting people who don't want to run about and train, who are about three stone overweight. What am I supposed to keep saying? 'Keep getting your 60, 70 grand a week but don't train'? What's the game coming to?”
“Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.”
“When you peel back the layers of the anti-choice motivation, it always comes back to two things: What is the nature and purpose of human sexuality? And second, what is the role of women in the world? Sex and the role of women are inextricably linked, because if you can separate sex from procreation, you have given women the ability to participate in society on an equal basis with men.”
“Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience.”
“Judging by the vast amount of cookbooks printed and sold in the United States one would think the American woman a fanatical cook. She isn't.”
“Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.”
“As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.”
“Man was mark'd A friend in his creation to himself, And may, with fit ambition, conceive The greatest blessings, and the highest honors Appointed for him, if he can achieve them The right and noble way.”

Source : Philip Massinger, John Ford (1859). “The Dramatic Works of Massinger and Ford”, p.356

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