"I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me."

-- Lana Del Rey

#Writing Quotes

“Freedom was born in Greece because there men limited their own freedom. ... The limits to action established by law were a mere nothing compared to the limits established by a man's free choice.”
“If any spiritualistic medium can do stunts, there is no more need for special conditions than there is for a chemist to turn down lights, start operations with a hymn, and ask whether there's any chemical present that has affinity with something named Hydrogen.”
“The Church in the colonies is the white people's Church, the foreigner's Church. She does not call the native to God's ways but to the ways of the white man, of the master, of the oppressor.”
“People wish their enemies dead - but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!”

Source : Letter from Horace Walpole to the Earl of Harcourt, 17 September 1778, in W. S. Lewis et al. (eds.) 'Horace Walpole's Correspondence' vol. 35 (1973) p. 489
“I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning, the middle, and the end of art." Turning then to another--"And you," I inquired, "what do you consider as the great force in art?" "Love," he replied. In their two answers I found but one truth.”
“And it is essential that in fighting terrorism, sacrifices should not be made on democracy.”
“There were no embraces, because where there is great love there is often little display of it.”

Source : "Death Comes for the Archbishop". Book by Willa Cather, 1927.
“Every sin provokes its punishment.”

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