"One reason writers write is out of revenge. Life hurts; certain ideas and experiences hurt; one wants to clarify, to set out illuminations, to replay the old bad scenes and get the Treppenworte said -- the words one didn't have the strength or ripeness to say when those words were necessary for one's dignity or survival."

-- Cynthia Ozick

#Hurt Quotes #Revenge Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”
“We should set a national goal of making computers and Internet access available for every American . . . we must help all Americans gain the skills they need to make the most of the connection.”
“God is God. His name doesn't matter.”
“Sanity lies somewhere between the inhibitions of conventional morality and the looseness of the extreme impulse”
“Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.”
“I was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in in South Africa at the time was a very matriarchal society because so many black men had been removed from the home.”
“I will read four or five books at the same time.”
“Knights of the spirit; warriors in the cause Of justice absolute 'twixt man and man.”

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