"He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to."

-- Stephen King

#Writing Quotes #Shining Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“The bizarre thing about the anthropocene is that never has humanity been more powerful and never have individual humans felt so powerless. This is because so much that drives the circumstances of the anthropocene is the aggregation of apparently negligible acts, often amplified by technology, rather than decisive acts by autonomous decision-makers.”
“DIAPHRAGM, n. A muscular partition separating disorders of the chest from disorders of the bowels.”
“The influences that have lifted the race to a higher moral level are education, freedom, leisure, the humanizing tendency of a better-supplied and more interesting life. In a word, science and liberalism . . . have accomplished the very things for which religion claims the credit.”
“Ideas run wild without discussion.”

Source : Serge Kahili King (2009). “Urban Shaman”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
“The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.”
“a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.”
“There are some of us who in after years say to Fate, 'Now deal us your hardest blow, give us what you will; but let us never again suffer as we suffered when we were children.' The barb in the arrow of childhood's suffering is this: its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance.”
“Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws.”

Source : "Writer Bill James". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. May 20, 2011.

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