"I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing."

-- Curtis Sittenfeld

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Even though my grandparents live overseas and are so far away and we talk as much as we can, we don't see each other that often.”
“I'm pretty proud of my film music in general.”
“I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.”
“It's against the law in India to marry off a girl under the age of 18, as it is in many parts of the world. But India has more child brides than any other country, and they become mothers early in life. The population continues to grow; it is likely to overtake China as the most populous nation within this decade.”

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“To turn ordinary clothes into gardening clothes, simply mix with compost.”
“Oh, why does compassion weaken us?' It doesn't, really...Somewhere where it all balances out-don't the philosophers have a name for it, the perfect place, the place where the answers live?-if we could go there, you could see it doesn't.It only looks, a little bit, like it does, from here, like an ant at the foot of an oak tree. He doesn't have a clue that it's a tree; it's the beginning of the wall round the world, to him.”
“You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.”
“The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it.”

Source : Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.98, David R. Godine Publisher

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