"Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits."

-- Ann Beattie

#Limits Quotes #Assuming Quotes

“We think that the world is limited and explained by its past. We tend to think that what happened in the past determines what is going to happen next, and we do not see that it is exactly the other way around! What is always the source of the world is the present; the past doesn't explain a thing. The past trails behind the present like the wake of a ship and eventually disappears.”
“Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets.”
“School textbooks have almost completely excised any reference to America's true religious heritage.”
“Anger does not solve anything; it builds nothing.”
“Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.”
“Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has.â€ ~Blink”
“Passion will move men beyond themselves, beyond their shortcomings, beyond their failures.”
“I didn't see [Luigi St. Omer] as a teacher. I saw him as a comrade I respected and I could go to see anytime something was bothering me. He was indeed my "big brother". He praised me when I did something exceptional and scolded me when I did things which were out of the way.”

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