"I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't."

-- Anne Enright

#Clever Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Love of others is the appreciation of one's self.”

Source : Mina Loy (2015). “The Lost Lunar Baedeker: Poems of Mina Loy”, p.150, Macmillan
“The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alone do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.”
“Gift-wrap the framed artwork on your walls and rehang them - what's nicer than a wall of presents to look at?”
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.”
“Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.”

Source : Song: The Eagle, Album: The Eagle, 1990
“Any picture firmly held in any mind, in any form, is bound to come forth. That is the great, unchanging universal law that, when we cooperate with it intelligently, makes us absolute masters of the conditions and situations in our lives.”
“It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.”
“You see how wrong I go, how ridiculous I'm making myself in your eyes by keeping on guessing wrong like this! Doesn't that help you to come out with it? Come on now!”

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