"I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me."

-- Louis Auchincloss

#Appreciation Quotes #Book Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.”

Source : Clifford D. Simak (2015). “Way Station”, p.168, Open Road Media
“The cold, cruel reality is that with one current justice now approaching ninety, and four others over seventy, the day will inevitably arrive when a sitting justice lies in an intensive care unit, both unable to resign and unable to resume his or her duties.”

Source : "Anticipating the Incapacitated Justice". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 22, 2009.
“My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.”
“I took up leprosy work not to help anyone, but to overcome that fear in my life. That it worked out good for others was a by-product. But the fact is I did it to overcome fear.”
“And, like poor Phaedra, we fall in love not with who we want to fall in love with, but with one who moves us, and sometimes it is the last person we should fall in love with. Our involuntary choice is not always the right one, and sometimes it is actually the worst one, hence our suffering. And then, of course, there is the completely different situation of the loving people where, over the years, the love they once felt for each other fades and they can't go on. They feel their love dying, but are unable to bring it back to life.”
“Nobody stands out right now. Everybody has similar styles. None of these fighters have reinvented the wheel and created a new style.”
“Mother does not exist, like water that has given life to a flower and then disappeared. Mothers live somewhere after giving birth to us.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Harmony is when the sum is greater than the parts. A happy exaggeration.”

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