"A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Writing Quotes #Quality Quotes #Literature Quotes

“What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?”
“I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before,”
“It's not as bad as it was last year. It feels good today.”
“A little mordida, here. A little mordida, there.”
“[A]nother important difference between tourist and traveler is that the former accepts his own civilization without question; not so the traveler, who compares it with the others, and rejects those elements he finds not to his liking.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2000). “The Paul Bowles reader”
“Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.”

Source : Mary Astell (2002). “A Serious Proposal to the Ladies”, p.67, Broadview Press
“I don't think I'm romantic at all. I have a lot of faith in the right thing happening. I don't really hope for a lot of particulars, I just have faith that the right thing will happen most of the time.”
“A culture is like an immune system. It operates through the laws of systems, just like a body. If a body has an infection, the immune system deals with it. Similarly, a group enforces its norms, either actively or passively.”

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