"Reading and writing and the preservation of language and its forms and the kind of eloquence and the kind of beauty which the language is capable of is terribly important to the human beings because this is connected to thought."

-- Iris Murdoch

#Reading Quotes #Writing Quotes #Important Quotes

“If you are still alive when you read this, close your eyes. I am under their lids, growing black.”

Source : Bill Knott (1968). “The Naomi Poems, Book One: Corpse and Beans”
“Goodbyes weren't all they were cracked up to be”
“We need writers, we need to tell stories that include minority people, and then we won't have this discussion about Oscar so white.”
“Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.”
“If you want change, create the causes.”
“Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.”
“Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one”
“There are some images that I will only use once, and not use again because they don't seem to really hit the nail right on the head, but there are some which are so strong they have to be reduced; sometimes just reusing them makes them stronger.”

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