"Ive learned never to try and force words to come."

-- Alan Garner

#Trying Quotes #Force Quotes #Ive Learned Quotes

“I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.”

Source : "Transcript of 'Crack is whack' Interview". Interview with Diane Sawyer, genius.com. December 4, 2002.
“Objects in a park suggest static repose rather than any ongoing dialectic. Parks are finished landscapes for finished art .”
“Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.”

Source : Frances Wright (1850). “A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum”, p.176
“Alas! must it ever be so? Do we stand in our own light, wherever we go, And fight our own shadows forever?”
“The question eventually must be raised: Is it a criminal offense to take the name of the Lord in vain? When people curse their parents, it unquestionably is a capital crime (Ex. 21:17). The son or daughter is under the lawful jurisdiction of the family. The integrity of the family must be maintained by the threat of death. Clearly, cursing God (blasphemy) is a comparable crime, and is therefore a capital crime (Lev. 24:16).”
“The problem with having evil minions is that minions are stupid.”
“It was from the artists and poets that the pertinent answers came, and I know that panic would have broken loose had they been able to compare notes.”
“Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.”

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