"Editors are licensed to be curious."

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William Zinsser

#Editors Quotes #Curious Quotes

“The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.”
“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.”

Source : J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.72, Hachette UK
“But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.”

Source : Danny Wallace (2010). “Yes Man”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“Either war is obsolete, or men are.”
“My hope that the Church will emerge as a strong leader in society is just that a hope. What I described in The Catholic Moment is not a prophecy but the outline of a possibility. There are no guarantees that my hopes expressed in The Catholic Moment will ever be realised.”
“The message sent is not always the message received.”
“The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.”

Source : "Damage: a novel".
“The beliefs I was raised with - to respect animals and to be aware of nature, to understand that we share this planet with other creatures - have had a huge impact on me.”

Source : "Stella McCartney: 'Fashion people are pretty heartless'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2009.

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