"The Blood of Heroes is surely the best account to date, one that presents plenty of new insights while acting as a corrective-or at least an alternative viewpoint-to previous accounts....Donovan combines that vital blend of authoritative scholarship with the vivid writing necessary to make an oft-told tale seem fresh."

-- William C. Davis

#Hero Quotes #Writing Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with merely numerically adding to my stores.”
“I think there is a certain fascination with a man's hair.”

Source : Source: www.gq.com
“You are whole and also part of larger and larger circles of wholeness you many not even know about. You are never alone. And you already belong. You belong to humanity. You belong to life. You belong to this moment, this breath.”
“I see myself only sporadically as a teacher and consistently as a writer. Teaching is how I pay the bills...and fortunately, for my students, I can intellectualize about writing, and I can talk about it well, and I like to talk about it.”

Source : "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.
“But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.”
“For someone attacked by criminals to be victimized a second time by a second-guessing legal system is wrong.”
“Music is geometry in time.”

Source : "I am a Composer". Book by Arthur Honegger, 1951.

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