"The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature."

-- Rachel Cusk

#Believe Quotes #Writing Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“The signal is the truth. The noise is what distracts us from the truth.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.21, Penguin
“Tales of heroes end in bliss.”
“Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.”

Source : Auguste Comte (1851). “The Philosophy of Mathematics”, p.26
“As writers we need to crack open language.”
“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
“Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.”
“The Republicans find their faith imperiled by Barney Frank's marriage. There is always a shadow on the wall, a monster in the closet, a mysterious rustling in the teeming underbrush of the conservative Id.”

Source : "The Lonely War Of Marlin Stutzman" by Charlie Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 3, 2013.
“I keep encouraging the pharmaceutical companies to put more money into R&D.”

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