"Writers sometimes give up what is most strange and wonderful about their writing - soften their roughest edges - to accommodate themselves toward a group response."

-- Mary Oliver

#Giving Up Quotes #Writing Quotes #Groups Quotes

“Laughing in full abandonment is very good for your health.”
“But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”
“An honest brew makes its own friends.”
“[History is] petrified imagination.”
“There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.”
“...Tunstell was not what one could describe as call subtle. His flaming red hair bobbed up with each pointed and articulated footstep as though he were some cloaked Gothic villain creeping across a stage.”
“We're all sheep and lemmings to some degree.”
“And now, my friend, I am going to expose to you all my weaknesses. All men, I believe, are under a necessity of paying tribute at some time or other to Love, and it is vain to strive to avoid it. I was a philosopher, yet this tyrant of the mind triumphed over all my wisdom; his darts were of greater force than all my reasonings, and with a sweet constraint he led me wherever he pleased.”

Source : Peter Abelard, Héloïse (2017). “Letters of Abelard and Heloise”, p.40, Litres

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