"I long to journey endlessly, always in search of something new. Always alert."

-- Enrique Vila-Matas

#Journey Quotes #Long Quotes #Something New Quotes

“About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.”
“I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays itâ€™s no good being a cabbage â€“ unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.”
“As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to imagine, it answers for the time very well as an explanation; that is, it stops further inquiry. But it also has had the disadvantage of effectually stopping the advance of science, by involving it in obscurity and confusion.”
“Your greatest power is to show love, to receive love and to be love.”
“It is the duty of the saints, especially in times of straights, to reflect upon the performances of Providence for them in all the states and through all the stages of their lives.”
“I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.”
“God has given me the ability. The rest is up to me. Believe. Believe. Believe.”
“We must always look after our friends, even when they are foolish. Especially when they are foolish.”

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