"I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand."

-- Joan Didion

#Writing Quotes #Catharsis Quotes

“Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“To be free from ignorance you need knowledge. The mind should turn inward. Silence takes the mind inward and helps you to recognize who you are.”
“Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.”

Source : Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.36, Macmillan
“A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only himself can damage that. His reputation is what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity.”
“We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.”

Source : FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Nov 09, 2013
“The Jews talk about "never again."... You cannot say "Never again" to God because when he puts you in the oven, you're in one indeed!... "Never again" don't mean a damn thing when God get ready for you!”
“The worst program in the world, if you believe in it 100%, is better than a great program that you don't believe in.”
“Would you please publish the enclosed manuscript or return it without delay, as I have other irons in the fire.”

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