"Once we've made a decision, we are efficient only if we go through with it decisively, undistracted by doubts about its correctness."

-- John Cleese

#Decision Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Efficiency Quotes

“I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended to arouse. There is a gender divide on the short story "The Girlfriend Game" - women seem to consider it "sexy" but men usually find it uncomfortable.”
“I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.”
“In spite of the pangs of travail, the longing for motherhood remains the most powerful instinct in woman.”

Source : Joseph Herman Hertz (1941). “Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim haftarot”
“We have not created any sort of democratic test for any nation.”
“So we start with an oversignifying reader. Those texts that appear to reward this reader for this additional investment - text that we find exceptionally suggestive, apposite, or musical - are usually adjudged to be 'poetic'. ... The work of the poet is to contribute a text that will firstly invite such a reading; and secondly reward such a reading.”
“One can do something if one can see and understand it...”
“... anything difficult to say must be shouted from the rooftops.”

Source : Natalie Clifford Barney (1992). “Adventures of the Mind: The Memoirs of Natalie Clifford Barney”, p.21, NYU Press
“Seized ivory stocks around Africa are recycled back into illegal trade due to corruption. Ivory stocks should be burnt together with the hopes of traffickers for any "legal" way to allow them to slaughter our elephants.”

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