"Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"

-- Kurt Vonnegut

#Freedom Quotes #Writing Quotes #Perfect Quotes

“People you don't like are pigheaded. Your friends are stubborn, or hold to their purpose.”

Source : Harry Turtledove (2008). “The United States of Atlantis”, p.145, Penguin
“Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.”
“Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.”
“This is a very fashionable charge to bring against a company. This is one of the consequences, in this country, of being in the Internet industry. I think it's quite scandalous, they brought the weakest charges they had.”
“When we harbor negative emotions toward others or toward ourselves, or when we intentionally create pain for others, we poison our own physical and spiritual systems. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. It disables a person's emotional resources. The challenge...is to refine our capacity to love others as well as ourselves and to develop the power of forgiveness.”
“People talk about love as though it were something you could give, like an armful of flowers. And a lot of people give love like that -- just dump it down on top of you, a useless strong-scented burden.”
“If we believe in a theology that doesnâ€™t contain doing the works of Jesus, we will not have a practice of Signs & Wondersâ€¦”
“It's not always easy to tell the difference between thinking and looking out of the window.”

Source : Wallace Stevens (1966). “Letters”

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