"To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up."

-- V. S. Naipaul

#Book Quotes #Past Quotes #Long Quotes

“Belief means nothing without actions”
“Australia must prioritise education spending. It is not a question of whether or not we have the money, it is a question of how we choose to spend it.”
“Republicans are definitely pro-birth - they'll do everything they can to make sure that that baby comes out, regardless of how it got in, but are they pro-life? Can you be pro-life and vote to cut funding that supports the life of a child?”

Source : "Republicans: What About Children Outside the Womb?" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2012.
“Wise elders will likely be those individuals who stay both mentally and physically vital throughout life.”

Source : Louis Cozolino (2014). “The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (Second Edition) (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)”, p.424, W. W. Norton & Company
“One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.”
“I'm doing what I want to do.”
“Purpose is the quality we choose to shape our lives around.”
“Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.”

Source : Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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