"Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind."

-- V. S. Pritchett

#Writing Quotes #Mind Quotes #Landscape Quotes

“Climate change is such a huge issue that it requires strong, concerted, consistent and enduring action by governments.”
“I had a very tough childhood. I came here from Italy in the '70s and didn't speak a word of English, so the kids at school tormented me. Truly, it was horrifying the names they called me, and the teachers never really did a thing to stop it.”
“Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.”

Source : James Larkin (1995*). “In the footsteps of Big Jim: a family biography”, Blackwater Press
“My ideal is to achieve the ability to produce numberless prints from each negative, prints all significantly alive, yet indistinguishably alike, and to be able to circulate them at a price not higher than that of a popular magazine, or even a daily paper. To gain that ability there has been no choice but to follow the road I have chosen.”
“Life is like a movie-since there aren't any commercial breaks, you have to get up and go to the bathroom in the middle of it.”
“Nonviolence against humans cannot take firm hold in society as long as brutality and violence are practiced toward other animals.”
“A man coined to superlative must expect that his every statement will be taken with some caution”
“I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.”

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