"Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing."

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Edward Abbey

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“People don't really understand who I am. They always think that I'm very dark or depressed, but it couldn't be further from the truth!”
“New blood keeps us alive.”
“It must be odd, being recognizable. I would hate to lose that anonymity.”
“The reason why men do not look to the Church today is that she has destroyed her own influence by compromise.”

Source : G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Acts of The Apostles”, p.493, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“We have the illusion of freedom only because so few ever try to exercise it. Try it sometime. Try to save your home from the highway crowd, or to work a trade without the approval of the goons, or to open a little business without a permit, or to grow a crop without a quota, or to educate your child the way you want to, or to not have a child. We all have the freedom of a balloon floating in a pin factory.”

Source : "From Far Right to Far Left". The New York Times Magazine, (p. 305), Decemebr 6, 1970.
“You cannot tie your fiance to the railroad track of self-reflection and personal improvement.”
“Many things make the ideal magazine story . But one thing is that it calls attention to the reader to something that they never would have imagined being interested in. And you leave them with a sense of wonder. I have to think more about this.”
“I am the kind of a woman that likes to move on mentally from point to point, and I like for my man to be there way ahead of me. Then if he is strong and honest, it goes on from there. Good looks are not essential, just extra added attraction.”

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