"Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think."

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Source : Patricia Wentworth (1992). “The Ivory Dagger”, Perennial

Patricia Wentworth

#Anger Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Rage Quotes

“But all I feel is impatience, fury for the opposition I anticipate and the lies I'm going to have to tell to make it happen, and frustration that I can't even take a walk without them sending someone to hover. Attack me," she said. "I beg your pardon, Lady Queen?" "You should attack me, and we'll see what he does. He's probably quite bored--it'll be a relief to him." "Mightn't he run me through with his sword?" "Oh." Bitterblue chuckled. "Yes, I suppose he might. That would be a shame." "I'm gratified that you think so," said Giddon dryly.”
“I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick. Sometimes I add stuff I've already accomplished so I can get going on my feelings of accomplishment.”
“I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell.”
“I keep going till that pain says hello to me. I don't say goodbye until that pain says hello. That's a good set.”
“We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in. I think we accept a lot of those boxes, that labeling, and the way that we perceive the world, but what even is perception? It all seems pretty flexible to me.”
“The trouble with specialists is that they tend to think in grooves.”

Source : Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Descent of Woman”, p.10, Souvenir Press
“One of the things I always underscore when I teach criticism is that young critics, or would be critics, frequently have this illusion that if they write about music they're somehow part of music, or if they write about movies they're part of movies, or of they write about theater they're part of theater, or write about literature. Writing is a part of literature, we belong the species of literature. If you add all the music reviews together that have ever been written, they don't create two notes of music.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once upon a time.'”

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