"Facebook is the novel we are all writing"

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Source : Katie Roiphe (2013). “In Praise of Messy Lives”, p.155, Canongate Books

Katie Roiphe

#Writing Quotes #Novel Quotes

“If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.”
“The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.”
“I'm interested in locating the holy grail of the minimum means to express the most complex ideas.”
“Necessity is the author of change.”

Source : Tim Hansel (1995). “Keep on Dancin': Daily Readings to Celebrate Life”, Chariot Family Pub
“Everyone is in such a hurry. People havenâ€™t found meaning in their lives, so theyâ€™re running all the time looking for it. They think the next car, the next house, the next job. Then they find those things are empty, too, and they keep running. Once you start running, itâ€™s hard to slow yourself down.”
“NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.”
“One of my core values is to help redefine what it means to be a strong and beautiful woman in the music and fashion worlds and to empower the wonderful things that make us unique.”
“All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see them. Surely it is not my fault that they fall into certain lines and angles.”

Source : To-Day Interview, as quoted in Aubrey Beardsley : A Biography (1999) by Matthew Sturgis, p. 200, 1894.

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