"The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow."

-- Carson McCullers

#People Quotes #Darkness Quotes #Tomorrow Quotes

“Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it.”
“Immigration is a kind of pilgrimage. That's the way I see it. Just to go back to the desert, biblical metaphors, that's the story of great migration right there, the Old Testament.”
“You get some success. You run into some walls...it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.”
“Sending our kids in my family to private school was a big, big, big deal. And it was a giant family discussion. But it was a circular conversation, really, because ultimately we don't have a choice. I mean, I pay for a private education and I'm trying to get the one that most matches the public education that I had, but that kind of progressive education no longer exists in the public system. It's unfair.”
“There are many occasions in literature in which telling is far more effective than showing.”

Source : Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.25, Harper Collins
“It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.”
“To make mistakes is natural, but to go to one's grave without having understood them is to make life a pointless exercise.”

Source : Susanna Tamaro (2010). “Follow Your Heart”, p.141, Random House
“The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.”

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