"Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet."

-- Willa Cather

#Feet Quotes #Land Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“George VI in the conventional parlance was a Good King who sacrificed his life to his sense of duty. If we are to have monarchs it would be hard to find a better one.”
“Why do we 'drive' on a 'parkway' but 'park' at a 'strip club'?”
“Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined in and we just did it.”
“Don't quote the distinction, for the honour of my lord Coke.”
“As a writer I feel more like a filter than a performer. I absorb and observe and then I name scatterings of stars into constellations. I don't usually spend time asking whether the stars are random or planned. I make a narrative in the darkness, the area subscribed by an outline of bright points. Sometimes they look like Ursa Minor, and sometimes they just looks like one day the world exploded.”

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“A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation's development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated”
“You cannot avoid making judgements but you can become more conscious of the way in which you make them. This is critically important because once we judge someone or something we tend to stop thinking about them or it.”
“I want a girl who will takes care at me whenever im sick,and right here with me everytime.”

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