"...wrote Lawrence Block. "Someone once told me that fear and courage are like lightning and thunder; they both start out at the same time, but the fear travels faster and arrives sooner. If we just wait a moment, the requisite courage will be along shortly." (quoted from Write for Your Live by Lawrence Block)"

-- Ralph Keyes

#Block Quotes #Writing Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I've face more than 35 major leaguers, and only two have ever made contact against me.”
“I really have a lot of stuff in my head; if only there were insurance companies for that as there are for so many things.”
“The unconscious mind works without your knowledge and that is the way it prefers.”
“Why is it that even when you're trying your hardest not to get attached, something still sneaks up on you?”

Source : Claire Cook (2014). “Summer Blowout”, p.101, Marshbury Beach Books
“A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.”

Source : Howard Fast (2011). “April Morning”, p.18, Open Road Media
“Lately I've been struck with how I really love what you can't see in a photograph. An actual physical darkness. And it's very thrilling for me to see darkness again.”
“Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie...”

Source : "The World According to Wes". "Conversations with Slate" with Jacob Weisberg, www.slate.com. May 25, 2012.
“People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.”

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