"When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person."

-- Daphne du Maurier

#Writing Quotes #Scary Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“Being a better songwriter, that's top of the list because I think that is a very intimidating, difficult task. I really admire people that just continue to write and get stronger.”
“We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.”
“We are not our body, that we have a body, but a body is not who we are. We are that which possesses a body, and that which stands outside of the body, if you please, and exists quite apart and independent from it, and uses the body as a device or tool.”
“Oh I believe in loving cats and dogs and children and parents â€“ sometimes â€“ but I donâ€™t believe in romantic love. Of course, thereâ€™s the momentary rush of hormones and chemicals that encourages us to mate, but itâ€™s biology â€“ itâ€™s no more inherently mystical than the nicotine in that cigarette youâ€™re smoking”
“People who talk about peace are very often the most quarrelsome.”
“A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.”
“I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.”
“in New York there's such diversity that there's no one central identity; everyone is marginal.”

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