"It has always been my practice to cast a long paragraph in a single mould, to try it by my ear, to deposit it in my memory, but to suspend the action of the pen till I had given the last polish to my work."

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Edward Gibbon

#Memories Quotes #Writing Quotes #Practice Quotes

“There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.”
“Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.”

Source : Interview with Daniel Toaff, "Sorgenti di Vita", translated by Mirto Stone, March 25, 1983.
“A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.”

Source : Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.16, New Directions Publishing
“I've given you my best, why does she get the best of you?”

Source : Song: Stay
“I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.”
“The horror genre has been for me an original way of taking an explicit visual and visionary approach to directing.”
“A lot of bands that are great disappear a little bit faster than they used to. They don't get as much support for the long haul. You have to be pretty tough to hang in there.”
“Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.”

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