"When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection."

-- Francesc Ferrer i Guardia

#Atheism Quotes #Affection Quotes #Comrade Quotes

“If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.”
“The music in his laughter had a way of rounding off the missing notes in her soul.”

Source : Gloria Naylor (2017). “Linden Hills: A Novel”, p.25, Open Road Media
“I had hoped God would be neutral.”
“I would much rather not be the center of attention, and I'd much rather travel and be writing my novel, rather than standing on a stage and trying to get people to understand something.”
“Zion, thou art doubtless anxious for news of thy captives; they ask after thee, they who are the remainder of thy flock.”
“I like those crisis moments - if you're on top of it and don't get pulled under by panic and fear, it's a very bonding thing.”
“Organisation of social insurance should be treated as one part only of a comprehensive policy of social progress. Social insurance fully developed may provide income security; it is an attack upon Want. But Want is one only of five giants on the road of reconstruction and in some ways the easiest to attack. The others are Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness.”

Source : "Social Insurance and Allied Services". The "Beveridge Report" by William Beveridge (Part 1, 8), November 1942.
“Books that recount ordeals are precious because an ordeal is what we most fear, and the stories that tell us how to survive them reassure us about what a human being is capable of, as we survive our own lives every day, our own mysterious journeys.”

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