"When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself."

-- David Leavitt

#Silence Quotes #Trying Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Motivation is the spark that lights the fire of knowledge and fuels the engine of accomplishment, it maximizes and maintains momentum”
“Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.”
“Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is in play. Society has no obligation to try to rehabilitate evil.”
“Wrinkles and ill-nature together made a woman hideous.”
“Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.”
“I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.”
“At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is "not done" to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals.”
“I like Palestinians in the morning when they come and we talk but in the evening, who knows, maybe they don't know that I'm nice.”

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