"If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened."

-- Sherwood Anderson

#Writing Quotes

“To salvage a society, it is necessary to aid, abet, raise and increase that state of mind. If you were to set up a perfect government out here which required the intervention of nobody, you would have destroyed the society. But by raising the individual ability of the persons in the society within the framework that they are able to view, raise their ability within the framework they are able to view, you would have achieved a marked advance for that society.”
“Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.”
“That's one of my biggest obstacles. I'm afraid of failure. I want to succeed so bad that I become afraid of failing.”
“I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.”
“It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.”

Source : Sebastian Barry (2010). “A Long Long Way”, p.230, Faber & Faber
“Money makes your life easier. If you're lucky to have it, you're lucky.”
“For thousands of years, China developed its own political system. Its rulers, no matter who they are, are given a conditional right to govern by the people. In the past, but even now it is called a "Heavenly Mandate". If the rulers fail to respect the will of the people, they get deposed. And the Communist Party of China is greatly respectful of the desires of the majority of the Chinese people.”
“I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.”

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