"I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer."

-- Martin Cruz Smith

#Ideas Quotes #Busy Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.”
“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”
“One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.”
“Even ivory towers need central heating.”

Source : Breyten Breytenbach (1996). “Memroy of Birds in Times of Revolution”
“Ideally, you don't speak until you have something honest to say.”
“If you study the classic examples of endgame play you will see how the king was brought up as soon as possible even though there seemed no particular hurry at the time.”
“My life has had a lot of fits and starts: before I studied literature at all I was a musician, and began undergrad as a conservatory student. I started studying literature in my third year of college, when I took a poetry course with James Longenbach that was pretty extraordinary. It changed my life.”
“The notion that human life has greater value than any other form of life is both unjustifiable and arrogant.”

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