"I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once -- I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth. It's sort of freeing: I can say I'm abandoning this thing that I hate forever and I'm moving on to something that's good. I'll find that I'll go back to [the other project] in a day or a week and like it again. But that moment of wanting to trash something -- that Virginia Woolf moment when you have to be stopped from filling your pocket with stones -- comes pretty regularly for me. Switching is probably a good thing."

-- Dan Chaon

#Hate Quotes #Moving Quotes #Virginia Quotes

“The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests - they were concerned about the interests of their people.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“The class struggle is precisely that which resolves the contradictions between two opposed classes by abolishing them at the same time that it constitutes and reveals them as classes.”

Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
“This leads to a question - if a great many people are for a certain project, is it necessarily right? If the vast majority is for it, is it even more certainly right? This, to be sure, is one of the tricky points of democracy. The minority often turns out to be right, and though one believes in the efficacy of the democratic process, one has also to recognize that the demand of the many for a particular project at a particular time may mean only disaster.”

Source : Frances Perkins (2011). “The Roosevelt I Knew”, p.104, Penguin
“The church of St. Peter at Berlin, notwithstanding the total difference between them in the style of building, appears in some respects to have a great resemblance to St. Paul's in London.”

Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.53, BoD – Books on Demand
“I wake up every day feeling like today's the day to make a difference. I never question the correctness of what I'm doing or the need for it.”
“It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.”
“Calligraphy may well be simply an artistic version of another form, that is the ideograms which make up the poem, but then not only does it reflect the character and temperament of the artist but . . . also betrays his heart rate, his breathing.”

Source : Dai Sijie (2009). “Once on a Moonless Night”, p.17, Random House
“I tend to thrive on being misquoted. It's the only way I sound good.”

Source : "Jamie Campbell Bower Talks Fake Tattoos, Female Protagonists, Working with Lily Collins, and More on the Set of THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS: CITY OF BONES". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. February 14, 2013.

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