"I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on."

-- Leo Tolstoy

#Writing Quotes #Stories Quotes #Sides Quotes

“I think a part of being successful or trying to be successful is staying true to who you are. Be genuine.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Georgia is not just a European country, but one of the most ancient European countries.”
“Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity.”

Source : Aphra Behn (2015). “Oroonoko: the Royal Slave: Souls Needed for You”, p.91, 谷月社
“I am not being overly harsh. Overtly hostile, yes, but exactly the right amount of harsh.”
“The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became necessary to invent it. Georges Minois writes with empathy, erudition, and a novelist's sense of buildup and timing, weaving in the parallel story of Europe's courageous freethinkers. In the face of today's social and even legal pressures against criticizing religion, it is good to see an honorable French tradition asserting itself.”
“Life is filled with things you don't expect, but the Bible tells us to respond by trusting God and continuing to worship him,”
“Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke.”
“There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition”

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