"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."

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Kathy Acker

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Magic Quotes

“I'm always fascinated when people say, "We found rude conversations people had via e-mail." Why are you e-mailing this stuff? It has your signature on it! It has a time stamp!”
“Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.”
“The Internet has become a hate-filled town square with no limits put on destructive verbal behavior.”
“If you eat enough books, you start pooping out words.”
“Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.”
“We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical lesson, to renew the heart, and to bring us back to the state from whence we are fallen.”

Source : Charles Simeon (1833). “Horae homilecticae: or discourses (principally in the form of skeletons) now first digested into one continued series, and forming a commentary upon every book of the Old and New Testament; to which is annezed an improved edition of a translation of Claude's essay on the composition of a sermon...”, p.352
“There cannot be a secret Christian. Grace is like ointment hid in the hand; it betrayeth itself. If you truly feel the sweetness of the cross of Christ, you will be constrained to confess Christ before men.”
“At some point in time it will be right for me to step aside. That may be after this year, but that may be after two or three more years.”

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