"The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all."

-- Rose Tremain

#Panic Quotes #Rewriting Quotes #Existentialism Quotes

“Just because you BEAT Michael Jordan doesn't mean you BECOME Michael Jordan.”
“...I will not be silent any longer.”
“I think that there are these two very different sides to my relation to the Bible: one, my professional life; the other, a more private concern, interest and fascination with the Bible.”

Source : Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
“I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.”
“Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on.”
“I'm totally open to outside opinions and criticism.”
“The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?”

Source : Karl Jay Shapiro (1953). “Poems, 1940-1953”, New York : Random House
“Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging the affections and enlarging the understanding, that the heart can be meliorated or principles be formed; for like a bow forcibly bent, the mind recoils from oppression with elastic power.”

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