"If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed."

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Source : FaceBook post by Jojo Moyes from Aug 07, 2014

Jojo Moyes

#Writing Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Keys Quotes

“Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.”
“Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger â€¦ since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery â€¦would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.”

Source : Edward S. Curtis (2015). “The Teton Sioux, The Yanktonai, The Assiniboin”, p.88, Native American Book Publishers, LLC
“Oh! don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt, Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown, Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembled with fear at your frown?”

Source : 'Ben Bolt'
“For women the wage gap sets up an infuriating Catch-22 situation. They do the housework because they earn less, and they earn lessbecause they do the housework.”
“Worldviews are more a mental security blanket than a serious effort to understand the world”

Source : Bryan Caplan (2011). “The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies”, p.116, Princeton University Press
“Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.”
“A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.”
“You donâ€™t know who you are until you know God and you donâ€™t know how to live until you've settled the question of how to die.”

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