"It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing."

-- Virginia Woolf

#Writing Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Weâ€™re only here for a short while. And I think itâ€™s such a lucky accident, having been born, that weâ€™re almost obliged to pay attention.”
“Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the MOON, even to drams, scruples and grains-nay, to the very fraction of a grain!-I wish there were infallible experiments to ascertain the quantum of brains each man possesses, and every man's integrity and candour:-This is a desideratum in science which is most of all wanted.”
“A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one's own homestead.”
“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things.”
“People tend to pair off that way, Cath thought, in matched sets.”
“I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.”
“There's something to me with categorization - it stops you from thinking about the thing that is actually happening.”

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“The essence of humor is that it should be unexpected, that it should embody an element of surprise, that it should startle us out of that reasonable gravity which, after all, must be our habitual frame of mind.”

Source : Agnes Repplier (2015). “Americans and Others”, p.21, Sheba Blake Publishing

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