"[On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked."

-- Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

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“Over the years a photo-mania developed. At times, photographic images have signaled a way forward and gotten me out of a bind.”
“Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.”

Source : Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.23, Vintage
“There is a certain justice in criticism.”
“Let thy fortune be what it will, 'tis thy mind alone that makes thee poor or rich, miserable or happy.”

Source : Robert Burton (1857). “The Anatomy of melancholy”, p.366
“I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)”
“The idealists dream and the dream is told, and the practical men listen and ponder and bring back the truth and apply it to human life, and progress and growth and higher human ideals come into being and so the world moves ever on.”
“When you co-operate with an injustice, then a little bit of your spirit dies.”
“I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.”

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