"The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners..."

-- Natalie Goldberg

#Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“If economists were doctors, they would today be mired in malpractice suits.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Unconscious Civilization”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
“Living isn't just about doing for yourself,but what you do for others as well.”
“I went to seven colleges. I was a professional transfer student. I had to drop out 'cause I couldn't see out the back window.”
“Sex cannot be understood because nature cannot be understood. Science is a method of logical analysis of nature's operations. It has lessened human anxiety about the cosmos by demonstrating the materiality of nature's forces, and their frequent predictability. But science is always playing catch-up ball. Nature breaks its own rules whenever it wants. Science cannot avert a single thunderbolt. Western science is a product of the Apollonian mind: its hope is that by naming and classification, by the cold light of intellect, archaic night can be pushed back and defeated.”
“Photography is a response that has to do with the momentary recognition of things. Suddenly you're alive. A minute later there was nothing there. I just watched it evaporate. You look one moment and there's everything, next moment it's gone. Photography is very philosophical.”
“A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.”

Source : First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953
“Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times.”

Source : Interview With Tony Marx, mnmotorcycle.com. June 6, 2001.
“What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.”

Source : Interview With Carrie Seidman, ticket.heraldtribune.com. October 16, 2012.

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