"I have to be by myself when I write, and I never know how long it will take. It is like making butter. Sometimes it will come in a few minutes, and sometimes I have to churn away for hours."

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Source : Annie Fellows Johnston (1901). “The Little Colonel's House Party”, p.183, Pelican Publishing

Annie Fellows Johnston

#Writing Quotes #Long Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The dimensions of my feelings are too violent”
“Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I like the fans, but I don't feel an obligation that I have to be an example to them, like say maybe a baseball player would, or a football player or maybe some other type of musicians. I don't feel I have to really set an example that somebody else has to live up to.”
“Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.”

Source : "A chip off the ol' block - sort of" by Mitch Sherman, www.espn.com. April 10, 2011.
“I've had so much stress in the last year so it's really a struggle. I never hide, when I walk down the street, someone's going to take my picture, that's what I look like.”
“You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.”
“It's disgraceful and embarrassing that the highest technology in a typical city high school in this country is the metal detector the students pass through at the front door.”
“Maybe when I'm done being an attorney general I'll go out and do something that will really benefit people's lives and become a USANA distributor.”

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