"Sixteen hours ago an American airplane dropped one bomb on Hiroshima. . . . The force from which the sun draws its power has been loosed against those who brought war to the Far East."

-- Harry S. Truman

#War Quotes #Airplane Quotes #Sixteen Quotes

“Be Brave in the pursuit of beauty”
“When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.”
“Many times, when you go to arrest somebody, they pull their gun, and here I am, a federal agent, telling them to drop their gun. But the gun is like that. I give them a split second to drop it, and they drop it. I could have shot them - who is going to complain?”
“Students can't leave their lives at the door when they come to school. They bring with them whatever is going on at home and in their communities. Poetry and theater provide an outlet for students to express themselves and process what they're going through.”
“It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.”
“I have a lot of chameleon qualities, I get very absorbed in my surroundings.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and never written, or talked about (the ego eventually falls apart like a soaked sponge), but simply written; it's a dreadful, awful fact that writing is like any other work.”
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.”

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