"The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book."

-- Mickey Spillane

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Our need is so desperate an idea, a thing, a law can't help us. It took one thing, the gift of gifts, God in the flesh, to rescue us.”
“You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.”

Source : "Gene Sharp: A dictator's worst nightmare" by Mairi Mackay, www.cnn.com. June 25, 2012.
“When he frowned again, she was fairly sure that the nomenclature did not please him, and she found herself wishing she had been birthed to other syllables.”
“When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it.”
“I'm not buying a boat because of writing skits.”
“The air has finally gotten to the place that we can breathe it together.”

Source : Septima Poinsette Clark (1990). “Ready from Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement”
“Let us use our energy and our initiative to solve our problems without relying on prayers and wishful thinking. When we have faith in ourselves, we will find we do not have to have faith in gods.”
“The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.”

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