"I have admired Melissa Pritchard's writing for several years now for its wisdom, its humble elegance, and its earthy comedy."

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Rick Moody

#Humble Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them.”
“The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.”
“I was lucky, I had support from Mum and Dad - they said as long as you work hard, anything is possible. I never thought past those two things - that I liked living in imaginary worlds and that it is possible to do that for a living.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves.”

Source : Daniel Defoe (2016). “DANIEL DEFOE Ultimate Collection: 50+ Adventure Classics, Pirate Tales & Historical Novels - Including Biographies, Historical Works, Travel Sketches, Poems & Essays (Illustrated): Robinson Crusoe, The History of the Pirates, Captain Singleton, Memoirs of a Cavalier, A Journal of the Plague Year, Moll Flanders, Roxana, The History of the Devil, The King of Pirates and many more”, p.5759, e-artnow
“Be humble like Mary so that you can be holy like Jesus”
“You can never rely on a horse that is educated by fear. There will always be something that he fears more than you. But, when he trusts you, he will ask you, what to do when he is afraid.”
“I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.”
“As the decades go by, a painter's life becomes a life lived with oil paint, a story told in the thicknesses of oil. Any history of painting that does not take that obsession seriously is incomplete.”

Source : James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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