"I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive."

-- Susan Sontag

#Writing Quotes #Alive Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.”
“Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she would carry for the rest of her life: that people were essentially not evil, that perfection was death, that life was better than order and a little chaos good for the soul. Most important, this life was all. Unfortunately, she forgot these things, and had to remember them the hard way.”
“I played sports in high school and in college.”
“I can only answer the question â€˜What am I to do?â€™ if I can answer the prior question â€˜Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?â€™”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.250, A&C Black
“At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.”
“Compose. (No ideas but in things) Invent! Saxifrage is my flower that splits the rocks.”

Source : William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.455, New Directions Publishing
“They tried to say that being gay is a sin, and I said that adultery is a sin. Adultery is responsible for breaking up more marriages, but do we put that in the Constitution? Itâ€™s absurd.”
“I know the Bible isn't real because it never once mentions me.”

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