"Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers."

-- Roxane Gay

#Writing Quotes #Salvation Quotes #Solace Quotes

“I am really addicted to music.”
“What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach.”
“No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Didn't the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children? The way, the only way to stop this evil is for the red man to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was first, and should be now, for it was never divided." We gave them forest-clad mountains and valleys full of game, and in return what did they give our warriors and our women? Rum, trinkets, and a grave.”

Source : Speech to William Henry Harrison, Vincennes, Indiana Territory, 14 Aug. 1810
“People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.”

Source : Sandra Brown (2010). “Tough Customer: A Novel”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
“We were sent to this country by the President, who desires to promote the welfare of Japan, and are quite different from the ambassadors of other countries.”
“In August, 1900, [Friedrich] Nietzsche was laid to rest Nietzsche, as the apostle of atheism, heralded the darkest century the world has ever known.”
“Beauty shouldn't be taken too seriously. Life is stressful enough! Hair should be creative and crazy.”
“The only thing was, she didn't really want to see the future. What she wanted was to see something no one else could see or would see, and maybe that was asking for more magic that was in the world.”

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