"Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!"

-- Robert Harris

#Men Quotes #Wings Quotes #Soul Quotes

“Smiling without good reason is demeaning.”

Source : Ellen Raskin (2014). “The Westing Game”, p.44, Obelix Books
“If you have an hour, will you not improve that hour, instead of idling it away?”
“I'm more interested in moving toward writing stories - thinking about the graphic novel form, and just something more long-form. I did a lot of literary translation in college. Translation is an art. But for sure writing has always been a part of how I think through my ideas.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“[The writer] must essentially draw from life as he sees it, lives it, overhears it or steals it, and the truer the writer, perhaps the bigger the blackguard. He lives by biting the hand that feeds him.”
“My first lead role was a stage play called A Kestrel for a Knave. I was 11.”

Source : "Justin Chadwick and the Madiba Effect". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 26, 2013.
“I saw Hamlet Prince of Denmark played; but now the old plays begin to disgust this refined age.”

Source : E. S. de Beer (ed.) 'The Diary of John Evelyn' (1955) vol. 3, p. 304 (26 November 1661)
“Promise to my momma I'ma make it to the Top.. So I'ma keep climbing til my heartbeat drop”
“Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.”

Source : Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.161, Penguin

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