"I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire â€” where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live!"

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Writing Quotes #Fire Quotes #Long Quotes

“Learn to think for yourself, unless of course you can identify someone else with better judgement, and a flashlight.”
“Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past.”
“On thyroid therapy, more than 90 percent of those with painful menstruation were relieved, most of them completely. The results were fully as good in converting irregular periods to normal, regular ones. And in six of seven women with excessive flow, normal flow was established.”
“For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.”
“Love is the poetry of the senses.”
“I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share ...”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.”
“I certainly look at them very differently now, and enjoy Jackie Chan movies and movies like that.”

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