"Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind."

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Source : Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.148, Booklassic

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Fear Quotes #Real Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“When you come onto the set, everything should be focused around your character and you should stay in the pocket, as much as possible. Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket.”
“Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere.”
“Underneath the shifting appearances of the world as perceived by our unreliable senses, is there, or is there not, a bedrock of objective reality?”

Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.64, Harvard University Press
“The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down -- what I'm going to do next time.”
“In his younger days a man dreams of possessing the heart of the woman whom he loves; later, the feeling that he possesses the heart of a woman may be enough to make him fall in love with her.”
“An old mans memories, like his bones, grow sharp with age and show their true shapes.”
“I grabbed her ankle and kissed it, and when I looked up I saw her chin and her eyelashes as she threw back her head and laughed.”
“I want you to give all these chiefs of the soldiers here to understand that we are for peace, and that we have made peace, that we may not be mistaken by them for enemies.”

Source : Speaking to Colorado Governor Evans, Colonel Chivington, Major Wynkoop and others in Denver (Autumn 1864), as quoted in "The Boy's Book about Indians : Being What I Saw and Heard for Three Years on the Plains" by Edmund Bostwick Tuttle, p. 61, 1873.

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