"A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within."

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Source : 1984 One Writer's Beginnings, III. 'Finding a Voice'.

Eudora Welty

#Happiness Quotes #Serious Quotes #Daring Quotes

“The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.”
“In a way, the whole music industry is just catering to the inherent esteem issues all these artists have - it lays it all out on the line and baits the artist, like a light baits a mosquito. And you go right into it. With every comment on the internet, you go up, you go down, and it's a big shitshow full of uneducated people.”
“I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.”
“I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer.”
“No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.”
“I want you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think back, look back, or act back!”
“The Library is the heart of the University.”
“Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I already know. Â I assume it is natural for a traveler to seek diversity, and that it is the human element that makes him most aware of difference. Â If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.”

Source : Paul Bowles (2016). “Their Heads Are Green And Their Hands Are Blue”, p.5, Pickle Partners Publishing

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