"If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune."

-- Robert McKee

#Writing Quotes #Play Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you, so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?”

Source : Gilbert Sorrentino (1971). “Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things”
“Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.”
“Nothing is mine, I have only nothing but it is enough, it is beautiful and it is all mine. Do I even walk about in my own skin or is it something I have borrowed to spare my modesty?”
“False humility is thinly veiled ego disguised as self confidence.”
“The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. Theyâ€™re operated as holding pensâ€”miniature jails, really. Itâ€™s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated.”
“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.”
“When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.”
“The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.”

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