"Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye."

-- Thomas Fuller

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“Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing is more of an accomplishment.”
“The power of publicity is more important than advertising.”
“Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.20, Macmillan
“One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.”
“Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.”

Source : John Wilmot, John Adlard (2002). “The Debt to Pleasure: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, in the Eyes of His Contemporaries and in His Own Poetry and Prose”, p.125, Taylor & Francis
“Writing helped me understand what I was thinking about.”
“Think of a field of daisies: they bloom, they wither, and in the spring they grow again. Who wants to see the same stupid daisy year after year, especially with a bunch of crappy iron-lung-type equipment bolted to it?”

Source : Interview with Giulio Prisco, turingchurch.com. August 2002.
“Who can over estimate the progress of the world if all the money wasted in superstition could be used to enlighten, elevate and civilize mankind?”

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