"I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail."

-- Peter Matthiessen

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Details Quotes

“I want to arrive at the possibility of peace with the Syrians, and when I believe that the conditions are right, I will not miss the opportunity.”
“I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.”
“I don't like trends. They tend to make everybody look the same.”
“I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.”
“Well, I enjoy sharing in the dangers that we ask our men and women in uniform to share in almost every day.”

Source : "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.
“East of the sun and west of the moon.”
“Out of our deepest memories come the forgotten forms of the past, given new life by the living sentience of an ancient and eternal forest.”
“I didn't go to the lectures. My valet, who was more distinguished than I, went instead.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz, Dominique de Roux (1973). “A kind of testament”, Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd

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