"one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance."

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Fay Weldon

#Writing Quotes #Learning Quotes #States Quotes

“As long as I'm an hour away from a major airport, I can get to that job.”
“The world is infinitely more interesting than any of my opinions about it.”
“A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.”
“For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?”
“Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.”
“I write in the mornings. During my down time.”
“Credulity is always a ridiculous, often a dangerous failing: it has made of many a clever man, a fool; and of many a good man, a knave.”

Source : Frances Wright (1831). “A Few Days in Athens: Being the Translation of a Greek Manuscript Discovered in Herculaneum”, p.31
“The median GPA and LSAT percentile for students of the country's elite law schools were 3.8 and 98 respectively. At the time fewer than 20 black law students in the entire country met those standards.”

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