"Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day."

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Source : Sophy Burnham (2011). “For Writers Only: Inspiring Thoughts on the Exquisite Pain and Heady Joy of the Writing Life from Its Great Practitioners”, p.50, Penguin

Sophy Burnham

#Fear Quotes #Choices Quotes #Wish Quotes

“A self needed to spill out sometimes, a body should show evidence of what the hell went on inside it.”
“Coercion is as much the tool of the welfare state as it is of communism. The programs and edicts of both are backed by the police force. All of us know this to be true under communism, but it is equally true under our own brand of welfare statism.”
“The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free.”
“Political differences essentially depend on disagreement in moral principles.”
“Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.”

Source : Margaret Loftus Ranald, Eugene O'Neill (1984). “The Eugene O'Neill Companion”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
“Sex annihilates identity, and the space given to sex in contemporary novels is an avowal of the absence of character.”
“I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.”
“People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.”

Source : Oliver Goldsmith (1835). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Life and Notes”, p.86

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