"Looking straight at the world is part of your duty as a writer."

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Source : "Dispatches from the front". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2003.

Pat Barker

#World Quotes #Duty Quotes

“The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.”
“No one is born a Communist... in the Soviet Union farmers keep on looking in the barn for their horses even after they have given them to the collective.”
“Writing is a fearsome but grand vocationâ€”potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldnâ€™t trade my life for the world.”
“I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I had the "Bronx In Blue" album out. He said, "What Jimmy Reed did for you, you do for me."”
“My brain is just always going and going and going.”
“Geometric calculus consists in a system of operations analogous to those of algebraic calculus, but in which the entities on which the calculations are carried out, instead of being numbers, are geometric entities which we shall define.”

Source : Giuseppe Peano (2013). “Geometric Calculus: According to the Ausdehnungslehre of H. Grassmann”, p.17, Springer Science & Business Media
“When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.”
“To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.”

Source : "Seeds of Contemplation". Book by Thomas Merton, 1949.

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