"What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law."

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Source : Shirley Hazzard (2004). “Cliffs of Fall: And Other Stories”, p.24, Macmillan

Shirley Hazzard

#Fear Quotes #Law Quotes

“I wish you would notice that you are heterosexual.”

Source : Marilyn Frye (1992). “Willful virgin: essays in feminism, 1976-1992”, Crossing Pr
“Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life.”
“Writers are there to write, not experience things. If you want to experience things, become a pirate or a Bookhunter. If you want to write, write. If you can't find the makings of a story inside yourself, you won't find them anywhere.”
“Goethe in Weimar sleeps, and Greece, Long since, saw Byron 's struggle cease.”
“I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.”
“Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.”
“The epoch of doubt and transition during which the Greeks passed from the dim fancies of mythology to the fierce light of science was the age of Pericles, and the endeavour to substitute certain truth for the prescriptions of impaired authorities, which was then beginning to absorb the energies of the Greek intellect, is the grandest movement in the profane annals of mankind, for to it we owe, even after the immeasurable progress accomplished by Christianity, much of our philosophy and far the better part of the political knowledge we possess.”
“Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.”

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