"It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story."

-- Frank Yerby

#Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Knives Quotes

“Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.”
“The teachings of Osho, in fact, encompass many religions, but he is not defined by any of them. He is an illuminating speaker on Zen, Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Christianity and ancient Greek philosophy... and also a prolific author.”
“I'm the happiest I've been in a while.. So blessed and thankful for the future, for release and to finally be happy for those I loved..”
“I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.”
“Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.”
“Magic is a sudden opening of the mind to the wonder of existence. It is a sense that there is much more to life than we usually recognize; that we do not have to be confined by the limited views that our family, our society, or our own habitual thoughts impose on us; that life contains many dimensions, depths, textures, and meanings extending far beyond our familiar beliefs and concepts.”
“If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.”

Source : "My Dinner Party Nightmare" by Ellen Malcolm, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2008.
“Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.”

Source : British Association for the Advancement of Science. Section F (Economics), Joan Robinson (1973). “After Keynes: Papers Presented to Section F (Economics) at the 1972 Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science”, Wiley-Blackwell

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