"Returning to writing fiction after years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer."

-- Elizabeth Gilbert

#Writing Quotes #Years Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“It is a doctrine of war not to assume the enemy will not come, but rather to rely on one's readiness to meet him; not to presume that he will not attack, but rather to make one's self invincible.”
“I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?”
“In the 70s, what thrash was there? Punk came on, and that was cool. But there was no thrash. There were dinosaur big bands, and that was great. Those were my influences.”
“I'm not a purist. I'm not impure enough to be a purist.”
“All the members of terrorist organizations, even those that portray themselves as Muslim organizations.....they are all Darwinists.”
“It just seems so fundamental to me. I'm able to marry the person I wanted to marry. That's the fundamental human imperative. Those of us who have been lucky enough should expand these rights to others.”

Source : Chip Conley (2012). “Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
“If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?”
“We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear-fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.”

Source : Sukarno's speech at the opening of the Bandung Conference, as quoted in "Selected Documents: Some Aspects Concerning Progress & Principles of the Indonesian Revolution, Book 1" (p. 14), April 18, 1955.

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