"I don’t think I would ever want to be a writer of detective stories - but I would like to be a detective and there is a large deal of detection in the short story."

-- Mary Lavin

#Thinking Quotes #Insightful Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Take care of yourselves, and live as long as you can, and do all the good you can.”
“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.”
“I do Ashtanga yoga three times a week, and I run a couple of times a week, too. I really like yoga; I enjoy the actual doing of it, so it doesn't feel like the agony of the gym felt like to me.”
“Learn to live more in the Self. Come down a little bit to eat and talk as necessary.”
“Economic power is exercised by means of a positive, by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value; political power is exercised by means of a negative, by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction. The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear.”
“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.”
“maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.”

Source : BABS H. DEAL (1968). “THE WALLS CAME TUMBLING DOWN”
“Clever is as clever does.”

Source : Holly Black, Tony DiTerlizzi (2013). “Lucinda's Secret”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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