"if I believed that the choice lay between a sacrifice of the completest order of biography and that of the inviolability of private epistolary correspondence, I could not hesitate for a moment. I would keep the old and precious privacy,-the inestimable right of every one who has a friend and can write to him, - I would keep our written confidence from being made biographical material, as anxiously as I would keep our spoken conversation from being noted down for the good of society."

-- Harriet Martineau

#Writing Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Order Quotes

“I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played out sexually or not.”
“The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.”
“Lily, the caretaker's daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat, than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also.”
“I think we must cling to the hope that we can see in the great heroism, the bravery of the firemen and policemen, and the outpouring of caring and concern that has come pouring in from around the world.”
“Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work.”
“There's no such thing as quality time; there's only quantity time.”

Source : Steve Schirripa (2014). “Big Daddy's Rules: Raising Daughters Is Tougher Than I Look”, p.111, Simon and Schuster
“Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.”

Source : Interview with Lily Tomlin, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2015.
“I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.”

Source : "Les Paul Interview: In His Own Words". Interview with Rick Landers, guitarinternational.com.

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