"Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!"

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Source : Hilaire Belloc (2015). “Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)”, p.1447, Delphi Classics

Hilaire Belloc

#Writing Quotes #Army Quotes #Blow Quotes

“You need to know exactly where you stand in a business at all times. Measure everything, because everything that is measured and watched improves.”
“God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself.”
“When you look at a person, any person, everyone has a story. Everyone has gone through something that has changed their life. Anxiety, depression and panic attacks are not signs of weakness. They are signs of trying to remain strong for way too long.”
“This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.”
“The Internet has helped atheists and agnostics coalesce as never before.”
“I've said my patience is not infinite.”

Source : Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 27, 2012.
“Man is the only one in whom the instinct of life falters long enough to enable it to ask the question "Why?”
“Creativity is the life force that Dylan Thomas called 'the force that through the green fuse drives the flower.”

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