"I see creative-writing classes as some sort of AA meeting. It is more of a support group for people who write than an actual course in which you learn writing skills. This support group is extremely important because there is something very lonely about writing."

-- Etgar Keret

#Lonely Quotes #Writing Quotes #Class Quotes

“It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.”
“There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector”

Source : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”
“There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the former as something in physical space but not the latter. Actually √-1 is a much simpler concept.”
“Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.”

Source : "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 8, 1837.
“Lower taxes, less government spending on domestic programs and fewer regulations mean a better economy for everybody.”
“Anti-Semitism is the socialism of fools”

Source : "Der Antisemitismus". Book by Hermann Bahr, p. 21, 1894.
“At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.”
“My clothes are predominately black and my home is predominantly white.”

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