"It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?"

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James M. Barrie

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Ears Quotes

“There's lots of people my age (and younger) that have grown up in chaotic environments and I just happen to be one of the first ones to make it to pro sports. It's more a societal thing than an athletics thing.”
“People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.”
“I'm trying mostly to ask questions. And not just trying to stake out a position on something, but also trying to define the stuff we agree on. I'm having battles with comment posters trying to insert a little sense of order so it's not just a long pissing match between the edges, which is what I think a lot of the blogosphere is tending to do.”

Source : Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2008.
“Really it's hard to know where the Republican Party ends and the Tea Party begins.”

Source : "What James Carville doesn't get about Republicans" By Ari Fleischer, www.cnn.com. March 6, 2012.
“The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.”
“Nasr combines in his writing audacious intellectual criticism, deep understanding of Islam... and a commitment to the Western-European contributions to the emancipation of the human condition.”
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don't see any.”
“When something is finished, that means it's dead, doesn't it? I believe in everlastingness. I never finish a painting - I just stop working on it for a while.”

Source : Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender (2009). “Arshile Gorky: goats on the roof : a life in letters and documents”

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