"Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Negative Quotes

“The press should be the voice of the people, not of party.”
“I donâ€™t know about â€˜common sense opinionâ€™ by the way. It seems to me that the office of common sense is to keep us from playing cards for high stakes with people we meet on trains, and not to endorse metaphysical opinions.”
“A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.”

Source : Geoff Nicholson (1995). “Hunters and Gatherers: A Novel”, p.150, The Overlook Press
“Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.”
“Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.”
“If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.”
“The black arrowed swoop of the moment swung high into the unceilinged future, ten, fifty, sixty years, may be: then, past seeing, up to that warmthless unconsidered mock-time, when nothing shall be left but the memorial that fits all (except, if there be, the most unhappiest) of human kind: I was not, I lived and loved, I am not.”

Source : "A Fish Dinner in Memison". Book by Eric Rucker Eddison, 1941.
“They always say it is better to have loved and lost and all that, so no I don't think I have any regrets, and I have always been there for all of my kids no matter what.”

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