"More or less the first thing that comes into my head is that some people are always looking for what they want to do in life and never finding it. I'm not one of those people. It has been very obvious to me from an early age who I am, and this has been tied up with creativity, and, specifically, with writing."

-- Quentin S. Crisp

#Writing Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Who I Am Quotes

“Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.”

Source : John G. Hemry, Jack Campbell (2000). “Stark's War”, p.73, Penguin
“If they are ignorant, they are despised, if learned, mocked. In love they are reduced to the status of courtesans. As wives they are treated more as servants than as companions. Men do not love them: they make use of them, they exploit them, and expect, in that way, to make them subject to the law of fidelity.”
“The president has a big stick.”
“It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something.”
“Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.”
“And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.”
“I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.”
“With a lot of actors, you've got to chip through the surface to see who the real person is.”

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