"I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence."

-- James Laughlin

#Break Up Quotes #Block Quotes #Writing Quotes

“I'm not a good collaborator in general.”
“Sometimes, you get portrayed the way you don't want to be portrayed.”
“Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.”

Source : Diogenes Laertius, vol.9.
“Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.”

Source : John Drinkwater (1922). “The Lyric: An Essay”, p.16, Library of Alexandria
“There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.”
“Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.”

Source : Jahre der Entscheidung (The Hour of Decision, 1933) pt. 1
“A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face.”
“Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.”

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