"I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired."

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Source : "Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2013.

Tracy Chevalier

#Writing Quotes #Tired Quotes #Feel Good Quotes

“Youâ€™ve no more for me than I have for you.â€ Considerably disconcerted by this direct attack, she stammered: â€œHow can you say so? When I am sure I have always been most sincerely attached to you!â€ â€œYou deceive yourself, sister: not to me, but to my purse!”
“People who stare deserve the looks they get.”
“[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it involved the collaboration of scores of scientists from many different lands. But from the first to last the deeply creative, subtle and critical spirit of Niels Bohr guided, restrained, deepened and finally transmuted the enterprise.”
“Which is to say that culture is not a reflex of political economy, but that society is now a reflex of key shifts in music theory and practice.... [Sampladelia is] the sound made by those early-twentieth-century discoveries in particle physics and relativiity theory, the projection of the minds of Einstein, Heisenbery, and Bohr, their fateful explorations of liquid time, curving space, uncertainty fields and relativity theorems, into densely configured and fully ambivalent android music tracks”
“The universe bends to a still mind, peace be still.”

Source : Source: www.hiphopcanada.com
“We've shared so much laughter, so many tears. We're a spiritual bond that grows stronger each year. We're not sisters by birth, but we knew from the start, something put us together to be sisters by heart.”
“In war the only sure defense is offense, and the efficiency of the offense depends on the warlike souls of those conducting it.”
“Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”

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