"Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good."

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Katherine Anne Porter

#Children Quotes #Childhood Quotes #Essentials Quotes

“I was a very good baseball and football player, but my father always told me I was much more interested in how I looked playing baseball or football than in actually playing. There's great truth in that.”
“I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.”

Source : FaceBook post by John Updike from Dec 22, 2013
“When you write, you can hide behind your words. When you talk, you are up front, like the clown in the midway booth; and passersby can bean you with a ball.”
“The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Claude C. Hopkins, John E. Kennedy, Albert D. Lasker “Scientific Advertising Origins”, Lulu.com
“Sometimes I can only groan, and suffer, and pour out my despair at the piano.”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.149, Courier Corporation
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.”
“I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.”
“This strange disease of modern life, With its sick hurry, its divided aims.”

Source : 'The Scholar-Gipsy' (1853) l. 201

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