"A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story."

-- Lynn Abbey

#Intuition Quotes #Sketching Quotes #Stories Quotes

“The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.”

Source : Florence Nightingale, Michael D. Calabria, Janet A. Macrae (1994). “Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale: Selections and Commentaries”, p.18, University of Pennsylvania Press
“I'm still here, bitches. And I know everything." -A”
“You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.”
“He who would be singular in his apparel had need have something superlative to balance that affectation.”
“In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields.”
“The man in between waits between the two, not hearing the lie and not seeing the true. Unknowing what is and denying what seems, and there he will sleep, the man in between.”
“Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want.”

Source : David H. Levy (2003). “David Levy's Guide to Observing and Discovering Comets”, p.1, Cambridge University Press
“It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.”

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