"I show up in my writing room at approximately 10 A.M. every morning without fail. Sometimes my muse sees fit to join me there and sometimes she doesn't, but she always knows where I'll be. She doesn't need to go hunting in the taverns or on the beach or drag the boulevard looking for me."

-- Tom Robbins

#Beach Quotes #Morning Quotes #Writing Quotes

“Many people on the political left found my work psychologically liberating. They began to say: once you realize that standards emerge historically, then you can see through and discard all the norms to which we have been falsely enslaved.”
“Knowledge is knowing... or knowing where to find out.”
“All men are not slimy warthogs. Some men are silly giraffes, some woebegone puppies, some insecure frogs. But if one is not careful, those slimy warthogs can ruin it for all the others.”
“Profundity and originality are attributes of single, if not singular, minds.”
“I question whether I want to be integrated into America as it stands now, with its complacency and materialism, its soullessness ...”

Source : Paule Marshall (1983). “Reena and Other Stories”, p.90, Feminist Press at CUNY
“Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping.”
“The school was nothing but reminiscence - of an Italian hill town, a French abbey, an English academy, the different sources improbably but convincingly melded into a fantasy about the classic sites of Europe as imagined by exiles from cold peripheral lands, nostalgia about somebody else's past.”
“Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists:Â Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.”

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