"I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later."

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David Sedaris

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“I like that time is marked by each sunrise and sunset whether or not you actually see it.”
“If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.”
“Two hundred years ago the first liberal economist, Adam Smith, warned businessmen that they could absorb only a certain amount of rigidity. In the easy days after World War II... wage rises could be financed out of inflationary price increases.”
“We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! â€” it seems to say, â€” there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power.”
“For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.”
“Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy.”
“We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all”
“Many people are afraid of running because between 30 to 70 percent (depending on how you measure it) of runners get injured every year.”

Source : "Brains Plus Brawn" by Dr. Daniel Lieberman, www.edge.org. October 7, 2012.

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