"I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished."

-- Richard Price

#Writing Quotes #Office Quotes #Finished Quotes

“There is a satisfactory and available power in every one to learn drawing if he wishes, just as nearly all persons have the power of learning French, Latin or arithmetic, in a decent and useful degree.”
“Yes, of course. But ... how?" Kat felt her crew around her: Hamish's arm hung around Simon's shoulders; Gabrielle's delicate hands draped through the arms of Angus and Nick. Kat's own hand found Hale's, then, fingers interlacing, palms pressing together so tightly that Kat knew nothing could come between them. Nothing. She looked at him. No one. "It's easy," Kat said, "when you don't have to do it alone.”
“Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargainâ€¦ those gifts are truly great which are given simply for the joy they bring to another heart.”
“The wordy tale, once told, were hard to tell again.”
“I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.”

Source : "Let-Them-Eat-Cake-Attitude Threatens to Destroy a Network of Public Assets" by Scott Turow, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2011.
“Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.”
“Learning, traveling and comparing the world, writing outraged poetry, producing revolutionary art, demonstrating, holding the older generation-including their own parents and grandparents, responsible for destroying this country, and finally aiming at building a just, kind and beautiful nation called 'Indonesia'. This is much better and glorious than sitting in Starbucks, staring like idiots at uniformed smart phones, and basically killing ones life... and the lives of others... for nothing.”
“Iâ€™m just not interested.â€ â€œDo you have ovaries?â€ Jacob asked. I shot him a look. â€œYes.â€ â€¦ â€œThen how are you not interested.”

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