"Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say."

-- Kate Greenaway

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Desire Quotes

“The shadow proves the sunshine.”
“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”
“Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.”
“I do my talking inside the Octagon.”
“Loving a baby is a circular business, a kind of feedback loop. The more you give the more you get and the more you get the more you feel like giving.”

Source : Penelope Leach (2013). “Your Baby and Child”, p.10, Knopf
“The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.”

Source : "Untimely Thoughts". Book by Maxim Gorky, 1918.
“Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.”
“No one's perfect," I whisper. "It doesn't work that way. One bad thing goes away, and another bad thing replaces it." I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.”

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