"I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma."

-- Tea Obreht

#Grandma Quotes #Writing Quotes #Belgrade Quotes

“Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.”
“Man who stands on toilet, gets high on pot!”
“I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over.”
“So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.”

Source : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
“The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.”
“It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.”
“The fall of the present bureaucratic dictatorship [in the Soviet Union], if it were not replaced by a new socialist power, would thus mean a return to capitalist relations with a catastrophic decline of industry and culture.”
“If the river has a soul, it's a peaceful one. If it has a lesson to impart, that lesson is patience. There will be drought, it says; there will be floods; the ice will form, the ice will melt; the water will flow and blend into the river's brackish mouth, then join the ocean between Lewes and Cape May, endlessly, forever, amen.”

Source : Therese Anne Fowler (2013). “Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald”, p.274, Macmillan

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