"Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday."

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Source : 1987 In the Los Angeles Times,13 Oct.

Richard Wilbur

#Writing Quotes #Tuesday Quotes #Waiting Quotes

“I am scared of becoming a mother.”
“To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most.”
“Before I joined Kraftwerk in 1971, I played guitar in a band called Spirits of Sound, whose members included (at times) amongst others singer Wolfgang Riechmann (Sky Records released his only solo album Wunderbar shortly after his death in 1978) and drummer Wolfgang FlÃ¼r (later on Kraftwerk, now solo). The music of S.o.S. in the mid 60's first was the English pop and rock music of the times (Beatles, Kinks, Rolling Stones ).”
“The only thing worse than women are women who tell me I'm a misogynist.”
“I have nothing against Bosniaks/Islam, but it is the desire to direct political processes that is completely unacceptable.”
“i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the pack. thus, they strengthen the very gene pool they're feeding from. the threshold for what is weak, old or sick gets raised, and the strength, speed and instincts of new generations of hunters grow. a beautiful, self-perpetuating system where evolution is the antithesis of entropy.”

Source : Craig Clevenger (2005). “The Contortionist's Handbook”
“History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.”
“I wouldn't want to play LSU right now even if I were the Indianapolis Colts.”

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