"A man gains no possession better than a good woman, nothing more horrible than a bad one."

-- Simonides of Ceos

#Men Quotes #Good Woman Quotes #Gains Quotes

“Never look for right in the other man, but never cease to be right yourself. We are always looking for justice; the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount is - Never look for justice, but never cease to give it.”
“Have to and get to?both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.”
“I have long-range plans, but you always have to wait for business to catch up with you. It's a matter of contracts and meetings catching up with your ideas of what you want to accomplish in life.”
“The human brain cannot encompass total absence. Like infinity, it is simply not something that the organ runs to. The space someone leaves must be filled, so we dream forever of those who are no longer here. Our minds make them live again.”
“Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone ...”
“Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts, that we find it more natural to write down the thoughts rather than the deeds of our characters. But speaking as a teacher who has spent some twenty years slogging through manuscripts where thoughts and exposition pile up as thick as the aftermath of a California mudslide, I can attest to the power of the evocative detail, gesture, or figment of speech.”
“It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.”
“We never write anything with themes. We just write the same rubbish all the time.”

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