"Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know.""

-- Andre Dubus

#Writing Quotes #Opposites Quotes #Grace Quotes

“If you have a bad day in baseball, and start thinking about it, you will have 10 more.”
“Its a lot of fun to just say to people, proudly, I get to play the First Lady. Its just fun to say.”
“The paradox of liberal tolerance is that it extends to Marxists, transsexuals, and Islamic radicals, but not to conservatives or Christians.”

Source : FaceBook post by Dinesh D'Souza from Jan 06, 2015
“It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.”
“Real love takes work. You have to be willing to make the effort.”

Source : Noah Weinberg, Yaakov Salomon (2003). “What the Angel Taught You: Seven Keys to Life Fulfillment”, p.42, Mesorah Publications
“Yes, yes; you’ve read thousands of books but you’ve never tried to read your own self; you rush into your temples, into your mosques, but you have never tried to enter your own heart; futile are all your battles with the devil for you have never tried to fight your own desires.”
“There is no other closeness in human life like the closeness between a mother and her baby - chronologically, physically, and spiritually they are just a few heartbeats away from being the same person.”

Source : Susan Cheever (1995). “A Woman's Life: The Story of an Ordinary American and Her Extraordinary Generation”, Quill
“I like to look at everything and appreciate seeing the different things that have meaning to people.”

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