"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."

-- Robert Sheckley

#Hero Quotes #Writing Quotes #Able Quotes

“It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it”
“Anyone who has ever had the feeling of being higher than a kite after giving a public speech is well aware of the effects of attention.”
“Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?”
“Education is a vaccine for violence.”

Source : "'Education is the Vaccine for Violence' - Edward James Olmos". foreignpolicyblogs.com. April 04, 2008.
“Justice is the essence of peace”
“It was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept.”

Source : Cinda Williams Chima (2011). “The Wizard Heir”, p.243, Hachette UK
“One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices that will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.”
“I look at a nude. There are myriads of tiny tints. I must find the ones that will make the flesh on my canvas live and quiver.”

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