"If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new."

-- Ben Jonson

#Scratches Quotes #Crafts Quotes #Succeed Quotes

“I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).”
“I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.”
“I never started from ideas but always from character.”
“The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.”
“The essential thing, the ultimate goal of politics and thought, is a bigger life for the individual. A bigger life â€“ that remains the main objectiveâ€¦to increase our divine attributes to have moral life.”
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”

Source : Pablo Neruda, “Sonnet XVII”
“It's not just an economic crisis that capitalism has created. We also face an environmental catastrophe created by a handful of gigantic fossil fuel corporations.”

Source : Source: www.socialistalternative.org
“The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.”

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