"Research is necessary. However, you need to make sure you don't fall into its trap. You need to have time left for writing. To avoid the trap, I just throw myself into the abyss while at the same time being aware that if I'm dealing with information I don't know enough about, I have to go to someone and talk about it."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Jaume Cabre

#Fall Quotes #Writing Quotes #Enough Quotes

“My family truly believes they are better cooks than I am. They see me as Giada, not as a celebrity chef. To them I'm just me - their granddaughter, niece, etc., and they're older and wiser. I like that because it keeps you grounded.”
“When I was younger it was twice a day with a game on the weekend. Then when I got older, three times a day everyday in college and on the national team.”
“Prayer is the opening of the heart so we can receive all these good things that God has for us every day. It's like sitting down at a table that God has prepared for us. He says, 'I have everything you need today - all the grace, all the wisdom, all the provision that you need - but sit down at the table and eat. Don't be so rushed and so busy and try to live without My supply.'”
“We can never get a re-creation of community and heal our society without giving our citizens a sense of belonging.”
“In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.”

Source : Norman O. Brown (1972). “Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History”
“Don't they know science doesn't work like that? You can't just order scientific breakthroughs. They happen when you are looking at something you've been working on for years and suddenly see a connection you never noticed before, or when you're looking for something else altogether. Sometimes they even happen by accident. Don't they know you can't get a scientific breakthrough just because you want one?”

Source : Connie Willis (2010). “Bellwether”, p.80, Spectra
“Any society that derives its power and authority from the will of man alone lives apart from God and will crumble in the end.”
“When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God.”

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