"I have to face questions like, "Do I simply write the best text I possibly can? Do I specifically engage with contemporary issues? 'Do I consciously try to write something that is timeless?""

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Source : Source: wwd.com

Sjon

#Writing Quotes #Issues Quotes #Trying Quotes

“We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.”
“You can fool me once, you can even fool me twice, you can even fool me thrice. But you can never fool me four”
“In poetry, I didn't have to provide resolution. I could ask hard questions without feeling responsible for the answers.”
“Time doesn't heal scars as most people commonly think. It simply makes them firmer, stiffer. One must accept it and not hope to mend and return to what he or she once was.”

Source : V. C. Andrews (1999). “Olivia”, p.205, Simon and Schuster
“The second edition of There Is a Cure for Diabetes is groundbreaking. Dr. Gabriel Cousens gets impressive results that speak for themselves. He is reducing and even eliminating the need for medication, rated by The Journal of the American Medical Association as the fourth leading cause of death in people with diabetes. This well-documented book is all the more important and a better alternative.”
“I believe hip hop is being used in some mass way to influence underachievement.”
“Photography... has lived under the tyranny of its subject matter: the object has exercised an almost total domination.”
“Well there's nothing to lose And there's nothing to prove I'll be dancing with myself.”

Source : Song: Dancing With Myself, Album: Don't Stop, 1981

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