"You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell."

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

#Writing Quotes #Heart Quotes #People Quotes

“Nobody who lived through the '50s thought the '60s could've existed. So there's always hope.”
“The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared, the most wise, all-powerful Physician and Helper. When men hungered and thirsted after righteousness, as it grew weaker, then the everlasting righteousness came.”
“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”

Source : Marc Bekoff (2007). “Animals Matter: A Biologist Explains why We Should Treat Animals with Compassion and Respect”, p.167, Shambhala Publications
“Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.”
“Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.”
“All of the good movies are based on how that story was told. And you cannot do it with a bad script, that's for sure, no matter who.”
“The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.”

Source : "The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History". Book edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Jehuda Reinharz, p. 675, letter to Yitzhak Cukierman (April 23, 1943), 1995.
“Readers pass vocaulary tests. Nonreaders struggle.”

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