"The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write."

-- Joseph Addison

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Whereas many philosophers and theologians appear to possess an emotional attachment to their theories and ideas........scientists feel no qualms about suggesting different but mutually exclusive explanations for the same phenomenon.”
“I can't think of one great human being in the arts, or in history generally, who conformed, who succeeded, as education experts tell us children must succeed, with his peer group.”
“It is a simple logic truth that, short of mass emigration into space, with rockets taking off at the rate of several million per second, uncontrolled birth-rates are bound to lead to horribly increased death â€“rates. It is hard to believe that this simple truth is not understood by those leaders who forbid their followers to use effective contraceptive methods. They express a preference for â€˜naturalâ€™ methods of population limitation, and a natural method is exactly what they are going to get. It is called starvation.”
“Literature rests on language. It is a linguistic art. So it cannot sever its relationship with the past. But it can create new methods and styles that differ in structure, form, and content from the past.”
“For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.”
“It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.”
“You know you are fat when you hug a child and it gets lost.”
“I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.”

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