"Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?"

-- Wallace Shawn

#Writing Quotes #Common Quotes #Instance Quotes

“Having to be different is the same trap as having to be the same.”
“Kev wasn't certain if he was surrendering to Win or to his own passion for her. Only that there was no more holding back. He would take her. And he would give her everything he had, every part of his soul, even the broken pieces.”
“The older I get, the more frantic my work becomes because I want to get it all done. It's a losing battle, but I try.”
“Martha Stewart contributes more to our civility than the Baptist Church.”
“Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.”

Source : Kerry Diamond, Kevyn Aucoin (2004). “Kevyn Aucoin a Beautiful Life: The Success, Struggles, and Beauty Secrets of a Legendary Makeup Artist”, p.139, Simon and Schuster
“The 16 years have gone so fast. I came to Minnesota as a 19-year-old kid. Marv Grissom was the pitching coach, an old-timer who taught me quite a bit. Marv didn't like the way I stepped toward the plate. I had a tendency to throw across my body. So, he took me off to the side at Met Stadium and put a chair on the mound. If I threw across my body, I would step on the chair. Marv was trying to hurt me. I fooled him. I started stepping the right way.”
“It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.”
“With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.”

Source : "Cusanus: A Legacy of Learned Ignorance". Book by Peter J. Casarella, 2006.

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