"I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'"

-- Aldous Huxley

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“The provision of basic material needs is not sufficient to make minority groups and indigenous peoples feel they are truly part of the greater national entity. For that they have to be confident that they too have an active role to play in shaping the destiny of the state that demands their allegiance.”
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.”

Source : "Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina". Essay by Galileo Galilei, 1615.
“The artist seeks to record his awareness of order in life.”
“If you are only an underling, don't dress too fine.”
“For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again.”
“For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.”
“I don't care what my friends think." "You care what they'l do when they remember that you're the one with personality.”
“I feel that sometimes, holding yourself as black, saying that is your sole identity, can sometimes stand in your way of being a member of the humanity of man, being a member of the family of the divine.”

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