"When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again."

-- Richard Russo

#Writing Quotes #Fiction Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“The mental never influences the physical. It is always the physical that modifies the mental, and when we think that the mind is diseased, it is always an illusion.”
“To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.”
“Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.”
“My theory of hitting was just to watch the ball as it came in and hit it.”
“You could say one wine is like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz while another is like the mature Judy Garland, or that a big voluptuous chardonnay is like Marilyn Monroe -round, bosomy - you can remember that chardonnay, If you say a wine is snappy and lively, like Robin Williams, that's very different than the Anthony Hopkins of wine - urbane, sophisticated, measured, considered.”

Source : "Wine varietals: A glossary". www.cnn.com.
“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dr. Farrah Gray from Mar 15, 2013
“The difference is that with fame comes a spotlight, one which has recently made it impossible to ignore the fact that more and more of those folks we place on pedestals aren't even pausing to consider an option other than lying.”
“My specific concerns with Trump's plans are that they are likely to investments in infrastructure where the private returns are highest (for example toll roads and bridges) rather than where the public gains are greatest.”

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