"Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing."

-- Dave Barry

#Writing Quotes #Despair Quotes #Elements Quotes

“Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.”

Source : John Gould Fletcher, Lucas Carpenter, Leighton Rudolph (1988). “Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher”, p.174, University of Arkansas Press
“Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.”
“Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. It's all I know.”
“I canâ€™t name the poison thatâ€™s killing your friend. But the one thatâ€™s killing you is called hope.”
“She had been nobody and he had been golden.”
“No matter where you go, no matter where you live, a Kansas fan is a Kansas fan: implacable, insufferable and perfectly happy to stay that way.”
“There are those whose sole claim to profundity is the discovery of exceptions to the rules.”
“There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.”

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