"People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back."

-- Dorothy Allison

#Writing Quotes #Order Quotes #People Quotes

“Language is the soul’s ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.”

Source : Sven Birkerts (2006). “The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age”, p.153, Macmillan
“I loved duping my parents; I liked manipulating them. It was a way for me to stand out. It was fun.”
“There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses. And the other is involved with the gangs.”
“There are people who believe everything is sane and sensible that is done with a solemn face.”
“Well, the stuff that I liked growing up was AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, but I also liked the Beatles and guys like Cat Stevens and Elton John.”
“Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves.”

Source : Jean Kwok (2010). “Girl in Translation”, p.180, Penguin
“Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.”
“It feels intimate and life affirming to me when someone tweets things that appear to just be insane thoughts they had and typed out then tweeted immediately, with little or no regard for how others might perceive them, simply because they were in a state of emotional desperation and felt like they didn't want to express those thoughts to anyone else.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com

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