"Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else."

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Judith McNaught

#Instinct Quotes

“You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
“From sage on the stage to guide on the side.”
“Real life isn't required to be logical, but fiction has to make sense.”

Source : Leigh Michaels (2007). “On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells”, p.28, Writer's Digest Books
“I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.”
“The Old Ones were, the Old Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we know, but between them. They walk serene and primal, undimensioned and to us unseen.”

Source : H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “The Classic Horror Stories”, p.111, OUP Oxford
“Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion.”

Source : Georges Bataille (2004). “The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge”, p.185, U of Minnesota Press
“Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.”
“It is rather the nature of America - our freewheeling, outspoken, prosperous, liberty-loving citizens extend equality to women, homosexuals, minorities, and almost anyone who comes to our shores, and thereby create desire and with it shame for that desire. Indeed, it is worse still than that: Precisely because we worry publicly that we are insensitive, our enemies scoff privately that we in fact are too sensitive - what we think is liberality and magnanimity they see as license and decadence. If we don't have confidence in who we are, why should they?”

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