"The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head."

-- Flannery O'Connor

#Writing Quotes #Self Quotes #Blood Quotes

“You took the words right out of my mouth, it must have been while you were kissing me.”

Source : Song: You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth, Album: Bat Out of Hell, 1977
“Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a tiny bit somewhere in the frontal lobe to get a taste of his thoughts. But he's too much of a toughguy to ever be that vulnerable. - R on M”
“Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 194), 1895.
“If you say to me: "Master, it would seem that you weren't too terribly wise to have written these bits of nonsense and pleasant mockeries," I respond that you are hardly more so in finding amusement in reading them.”
“Judgments of others contribute to self-fulfilling prophecies.”
“I just want to go for it. In every aspect of my life and careers, I just want to give it all I have.”
“Lamb is such a beautiful thing.”
“I really did not feel okay about any of this, and there was really nothing I could do about any of it.”

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