"I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon."

-- Carolyn Chute

#Writing Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Tree Quotes

“He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.”
“Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.”
“The Tories are now the party of rural areas and Labour essentially is in the big cities”
“The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.”
“I think it's overly simplistic to say that any one single strategy is going to really change the focus and change the trajectory of drug use.”
“We will not be silent. We will not obey. We will not allow our government to destroy our humanity.”

Source : "Gun activist Adam Kokesh charged" By Laurie Ure, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2013.
“When we point to obstacles we inhibit progress. When we offer solutions we advance.”
“Incremental change is better than ambitious failure. . . .Success feeds on itself.”

Source : Tal Ben-Shahar (2011). “Complete Guide to Being Happier (EBOOK BUNDLE)”, p.9, McGraw-Hill Professional

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