"I think of myself as a realistic writer, not a creator of soap opera or melodrama."

-- Joyce Maynard

#Thinking Quotes #Opera Quotes #Soap Quotes

“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”
“Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.”
“The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.”
“There's a feeling of power in reserve, a power that drives right through the bone, like the shiver you sense in the shaft of an axe when you take it into your hand. You can strike, or you can not strike, and if you choose to hold back the blow, you can still feel inside you the resonance of the omitted thing.”
“Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.”
“Have fired 500 rounds at the Germans, at my command, been shelled, didn't run away thank the Lord and never lost a man. Probably shouldn't have told you but you'll not worry any more if you know I'm in it than if you think I am. Have had the most strenuous work of my life, am very tired but otherwise absolutely in good condition physically mentally and morally.”
“Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.”

Source : Sinclair Lewis (2014). “It Can't Happen Here”, p.356, Penguin
“If Iâ€™m a young black man in South Central L.A., where poverty is rampant and unemployment is skyrocketing, I see that Washingtonâ€™s promises of a year ago have gone unfulfilled, I see that perhaps for a second time, the courtâ€™s inability to mete out justice in a blind fashion, why shouldnâ€™t I vent my anger?”

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