"In an easy cause anyone can be eloquent; the slightest strength is enough to break what is already shattered."

-- Ovid

#Causes Quotes #Enough Quotes #Easy Quotes

“I have never considered myself a poet. Therefore, I am not a rival of anyone, and I do not consider anybody my rival.”
“I think having power ingrains people with a conservatism. There's a tendency to hedge one's bets. (Which explains a lot, actually, about why the movie business is the way it is, and why the publishing industry is too.)”
“I have lived with magic and without magic, and I can tell you with certainty that a life with magic is better....”

Source : FaceBook post by Chris Bohjalian from Oct 08, 2015
“Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.”
“Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.”
“She had always lived her best life in dreams. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened; when conscious thought grew owl's wings and talons and became other than conscious.”
“Each of us, face to face with other men, is clothed with some sort of dignity, but we know only too well all the unspeakable things that go on in the heart.”
“The weight of his losses finally too much to bear. But not before he has known the unforgiving light of the equator, a love that exists only in his imagination, and the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”

Source : Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press

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