"If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't."

-- Thomas Perry

#Thinking Quotes #Nine Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The best part about getting knocked down is standing back up knowing what you didn't before.”
“To cherish and stimulate the activity of the human mind, by multiplying the objects of enterprise, is not among the least considerable of the expedients, by which the wealth of a nation may be promoted.”
“The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.”
“Tell people the hammered truth, and it will ring like steel against an anvil.”

Source : Elizabeth Haydon (2006). “The Floating Island”, p.160, Macmillan
“Not blind opposition to progress,but opposition to blind progress...”
“I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.”
“It's like you run into this dark tunnel, trusting that somewhere there's another end to it where you're going to come out. And there's a point in the middle where it's just dark. There's no light from where you came in and there's no light at the other end; all you can do is keep running. And then you start to see a little light, and a little more light, and then, bam! You're out in the sun.”
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”

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