"A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow."

-- J. B. Priestley

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.”
“The swimmer adrift on the open seas measures his strength, and strives with all his muscles to keep himself afloat. But what is he to do when there is no land on the horizon, and none beyond it?”

Source : Georges Duhamel (1918). “The New Book of Martyrs: From the French of Georges Duhamel”
“The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.”
“I want to be a part of something that's good and intellectually challenging.”
“There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are worse things than not being able to sleep for thinking about them. It is 5 a.m. All the worse things come stalking in and stand icily about the bed looking worse and worse and worse.”

Source : Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited
“The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity.”
“It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”
“Raising children with an emphasis on intrinsic rewards is not a technique, a method or a trick to get them to do what the parent wants them to by subtler means, but a way of life, a way of living with children with real respect for their intelligence and for their being.”

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