"For the first month of school, writing is its own upper. Pounding on my computer keys feels like playing the piano, like arranging words into harmony that sings back to me."

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Source : Koren Zailckas (2006). “Smashed: Story of a Drunken Girlhood”, p.170, Penguin

Koren Zailckas

#Writing Quotes #School Quotes #Keys Quotes

“Nothing but you can lay hold of my mind, and that can lay hold of nothing but you.”
“Folks, this is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air.”
“When we love and respect people, revealing to them their value, they can begin to come out from behind the walls that protect them.”
“The danger of success is that it makes us forget the world's dreadful injustice.”
“Artists are the emotional historians of the world.”
“I never hoped that both my children would become actors. I expected them to do something else.”
“No man was ever a good soldier but the man who goes into the battle determined to conquer, or not to come back from the battle field (cheers). No other principle makes a good soldier.”

Source : William Edward White, Daniel O'Connell (1954). “Daniel O'Connell's Oratory on Repeal”
“The three most effective incentives to human action may be ... classified as creed, greed and dread. ... In examining the scientist it is perhaps worth while to examine how far he is moved by these three incentives. I think that, rather peculiarly and rather exceptionally, he is very little moved by dread. ... He is in fact essentially a person who has been taught he must be fearless in his dealing with facts.”

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