"I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication."

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Lily King

#Communication Quotes #Writing Quotes #Active Quotes

“With this magazine, you could change the 'H' to 'G', it may be funnier and better for sales.”
“Every form of communication is for the purpose of feeling, experiencing, sharing. Everyone has their own intense journey through life, and you don't want to do it all alone. It's really meaningful to be able to share with people. Whether it's your political beliefs, or what goes on for you emotionally, or keeping track of history.”
“Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.”
“If you seek patience, you will find no better example than the cross. Great patience occurs in two ways: either when one patiently suffers much, or when one suffers things which one is able to avoid and yet does not avoid. Christ endured much on the cross, and did so patiently, because when he suffered he did not threaten; he was led like a sheep to the slaughter and he did not open his mouth.”
“I also have always liked the monster within idea. I like the zombies being us. Zombies are the blue-collar monsters.”
“One of the things that makes a social-media cleanse so difficult is that every time we log on, every notification we get is an addictive substance. It's just like any drug.”
“Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.”

Source : "Ways of Seeing". Book by John Berger; Penguin Books, 1972.
“I always looked up to Michael [Jackson] because he was never afraid to just be himself, never tried to be anything that he wasn't.”

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