"The stories I respect most aren't those with the rich, dense prose, but those which achieve a rich, deep effect with simple little nothing-sentences, lines I won't possibly remember, because they simply functioned, didn't draw attention to themselves, were properly humble."

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Source : Source: slushpile.net

Stephen Graham Jones

#Humble Quotes #Simple Quotes #Attention Quotes

“Riches are oft by guilt and baseness earn'd; Or dealt by chance to shield a lucky knave, Or throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. But for one end, one much-neglected use, Are riches worth your care; (for nature's wants Are few, and without opulence supplied;) This noble end is, to produce the soul; To show the virtues in their fairest light; To make humanity the minister Of bounteous Providence; and teach the breast The generous luxury the gods enjoy.”
“The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?”
“... he that will live in this World, must be endu'd with the three rare Qualities of Dissimulation, Equivocation, and mental Reservation.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Aphra Behn (Illustrated)”, p.1382, Delphi Classics
“Just about anyone can pass if they have a home computer and are a quick study.”
“My job as a reporter, my job as a senior White House correspondent for CNN, is to report the news, but also to highlight and put a microscope on episodes of presidential hypocrisy. And you know, if Donald Trump was going to come after us out on the campaign trail, and as president of the United States through his tweets, I think we are well within our rights to defend ourselves, and also provide that kind of critical coverage to the American people.”

Source : Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
“Everything is a dangerous drug except reality which is unendurable.”
“Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening.”
“My parents used to say to me to save. Always save. They also told me to invest in properties and to never go over your monthly allowance.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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