"Novelists want to flood, poets want to distill."

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J. D. McClatchy

#Novelists Quotes #Want Quotes #Poet Quotes

“I think we're losing our sense of humor instead of being able to relax and laugh at ourselves. I don't care whether it's ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, or whose ox is being gored.”
“Before we make love my husband takes a pain killer.”
“It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.”
“Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.”
“Evolution is not a genetically controlled distortion of one adult form into another; it is a genetically controlled alteration in a developmental program.”
“Painters ought to be mute. Speech is the enemy of expression.”
“Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.”
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

Source : Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.298, Soho Press

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