"Most change in America doesn't come from, politicians. It comes from people inventing things and creating. The telephone, the telegraph, the computer, all those things didn't come from government. Our world is going to get better and better, as long as we keep the politicians from screwing it up."

-- David Boaz

#Our World Quotes #Government Quotes #Creating Quotes

“It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.”
“And what is more generous than a window?”

Source : Pat Schneider (2013). “How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice”, p.233, Oxford University Press
“Don't think you are looking at me because you are not.”
“Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.”
“The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.”
“I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.”

Source : "Man Booker prize-winner Richard Flanagan's acceptance speech in full" by Richard Flanagan, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.
“Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.”
“But not all scars showed, did they?”

Source : Eileen Wilks (2012). “Mortal Ties”, p.53, Penguin

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