"I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction."

-- Harry Crews

#Smart Quotes #Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It's strange how things happen, Mauricio Silva, known as the Eye, always tried to escape from violence even at the risk of being considered a coward, but the violence, the real violence, can't be escaped, at least not by us, born in Latin America in the 1950s, those of us who were around twenty years old when Salvador Allende died.”
“We need to tap the resource of current and retiring science and math professionals that have both content mastery and the practical experience to serve as effective teachers.”
“How gently rock yon poplars high Against the reach of primrose sky With heaven's pale candles stored.”

Source : Jean Ingelow (1863). “Poems”, p.47
“Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.”

Source : Nan Fairbrother (1965). “The House”
“Sometimes I just walk through; I just show up, as in The Other Sister.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Death is very often referred to as a good career move.”
“People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.”
“I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.”

Source : "Mohamed ElBaradei: What I've Learned" by John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. January 31, 2011.

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