"Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Judging Quotes #Down And Quotes #Stuff Quotes

“Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.”
“Disney world is an armpit,compared to Montana!!”
“Why do we marry, why take friends and lovers? Why give ourselves to music, painting, chemistry or cooking? Out of simple delight in the resident goodness of creation, of course; but out of more than that, too. Half earth's gorgeousness lies hidden in the glimpsed city it longs to become.”
“Ninety-nine percent of girls want to be models because they believe it will mean that they are the most beautiful women in the world. They think that they will wear expensive clothes, makes loads of money, travel a lot and have a rock star for a boyfriend. This never interested me. I didn't want anyone to scream out my name. I wanted to make art, to create an image with a photographer. And yes, I wanted to get out of Clinton, Mississippi - a small town that was so closed-minded you can't even imagine.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.”
“I used the best technique that I knew to protect my files”

Source : "Ethnic Profiling, Other Issues Still Surround Wen Ho Lee Case". Interview with James Riordon, www.aps.org. July 2002.
“You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.”
“Tell me, you vain professor, when did you shed a tear for the deadness, hardness, unbelief, or earthliness of your heart? Do you think that such an easy religion can save you? If so, we may invert Christ's words and say, 'Wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to life, and may there be that go in there.'”

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