"When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics."

-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#Reason Quotes #Polemics Quotes #Shock Quotes

“Forget health clinics and gyms. Sex is the best cure. One good night of sex and your problems are gone.”
“I like to stay busy, I like to stay focused, and I like to stay creative. Without being creative I'd be dead.”
“It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.”
“true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.”
“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”
“Keep a light, hopeful heart. But Âexpect the worst.”

Source : Ten rules for writing fiction (part two) by Hilary Mantel, Michael Moorcock, Michael Morpurgo, Andrew Motion, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Proulx, Philip Pullman, Ian Rankin, Will Self, Helen Simpson, Zadie Smith, Colm Tóibín, Rose Tremain, Sarah Waters, Jeanette Winterson, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.
“Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly from the source into song mode. As a composer, it may be fortuitous. What I feel is what you get.”
“On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop”

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