"The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows."

-- George William Curtis

#New Year Quotes #Determination Quotes #Years Quotes

“Women are the fulfilled sex. Through our children we are able to produce our own immortality, so we lack that divine restlessness which sends men charging off in pursuit of fortune or fame or an imagined Utopia. That is why we number so few geniuses among us. The wholesome oyster wears no pearl, the healthy whale no ambergris, and as long as we can keep on adding to the race, we harbor a sort of health within ourselves.”

Source : Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”
“The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.”
“It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.”
“To remain pure, a novel has to cast a moral puzzle. Anything else is mere negotiation.”
“The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.”
“In a fiction film, we know at some level we've suspended disbelief. In a documentary, we know that we're watching a drama unfold in the world because of the movie we're watching that is real. That has enormous stakes for the whole society, and we, by the act of watching, complete the story.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“The public makes a hit.”
“I've written some short stories about my personal experience, but it's not something you can use everywhere. Every novel, every work of fiction, needs its own food.”

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