"All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!"

-- T. E. Lawrence

#World Quotes #Revision Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I was helped by having a verbatim memory of what happened years ago, even if I can't remember what happened a couple of days ago.”
“Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.”
“Realizing that the majority of kids that get molested feel that it is their fault, along with shame, those kids have no idea what to say or do to try to report anything, and add that with the lack of education, it is a complete recipe for disaster that leads to non-reporting of molestation.”
“Listen to the pregnant woman. Value her. She values the life growing inside her. Listen to the pregnant woman, and you cannot help but defend her right to abortion.”
“Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours.”

Source : Arthur Gray (2012). “The Little Tea Book”, p.44, BoD – Books on Demand
“The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.”

Source : Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag
“I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The world is such a marvel-it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.”

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