"We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday."

-- Joseph Conrad

#Yesterday Quotes #Long Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“Producing writing is not so much like filling a basin or pool once, but rather getting water to keep flowing through till finally it runs clear.”

Source : Peter Elbow (1998). “Writing without Teachers”, p.52, Oxford University Press
“You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and it got stolen last year. So I've got to buy another one of those, I suppose. I can treat myself to that.”
“I guess I just always want to surprise myself and say something that I'm not really quite sure where it came from, and it sort of makes sense and has a kind of profundity to it. Sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Nanny Ogg looked under her bed in case there was a man there. Well, you never knew your luck.”
“Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.”
“Unwarrantable installment buying is a pit into which those who covet fall.”
“I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.”
“The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The chimney shudders to the blast.”

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