"Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think."

-- Sara Sheridan

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by large studies]; the statistical method gives only mediocre results; some recent examples demonstrate that. The American authors, who love to do things big, often publish experiments that have been conducted on hundreds and thousands of people; they instinctively obey the prejudice that the persuasiveness of a work is proportional to the number of observations. This is only an illusion.”
“For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such forms and institutions have been particular expressions, adequate for a specific period of time and in a specific geographical area.”
“This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didnâ€™t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.”

Source : J. Courtney Sullivan (2013). “The Engagements”, p.176, Vintage
“Love is seeing without eyes, hearing without ears; hatred is nothing.”
“Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”
“When you teach a child something you take away forever his chance of discovering it for himself.”
“The simple answer as to why we get fat is that carbohydrates make us so; protein and fat do not”
“We are designed for Giving”

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