"I had been writing professionally since 1988"

-- Laura Hillenbrand

#Writing Quotes

“If I had to depend on what I actually get from sales, I'd be tending bar between sets,”
“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”

Source : "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn, Illuminations, (VII), 1973.
“Nations have come under the control of haters and fools.”
“Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.”
“... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since more is known about the analogy than is known about the subject matter of the theory itself ... A collection of observable concepts in a purely formal hypothesis suggesting no analogy with anything would consequently not suggest either any directions for its own development.”
“Praying is not about asking; it's about listening... It is just opening your eyes to see what was there all along.”
“Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born.”

Source : "The Book of Quotes". Book by Barbara Rowes, 1979.
“It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated.”

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