"In a certain sense a writer is 'selected' by his subject - his subject being the consciousness of his own era."

-- Nadine Gordimer

#Eras Quotes #Consciousness Quotes #Certain Quotes

“They [photographs] teach you about your own unraveling past, or about the immediacy of yesterday. They show you what you look at. If you take a photograph, you've been responsive to something, and you looked hard at it. Hard for a thousandth of a second, hard for ten minutes. But hard, nonetheless. And it's the quality of that bite that teaches you how connected you were to that thing, and where you stood in relation to it, then and now.”
“We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.”

Source : "Reddit Defines What Free Speech Means on Reddit" by Rebecca Greenfield, www.theatlantic.com. October 17, 2012.
“When I thought about why I was sometimes reluctant to push myself, I realized that it was because I was afraid of failure - but in order to have more success, I needed to be willing to accept more failure.”
“Position yourself to succeed by doing the other things in your life that rejuvenate you. You can create little islands of time away from your novel that will help preserve your balance. Exhaustion will affect both your writingâ€™s quality and your productivity.”
“I've got miracle lyrical capability all in me / With the agility to escape a killer bee colony.”
“I learned in school that money isnâ€™t everything. Itâ€™s happiness that counts. So momma sent me to a different school.”
“Stewarding my time is not about selfishly pursuing only the things I like to do. Itâ€™s about effectively serving others in the ways Iâ€™m best able to serve and in the ways I am most uniquely called toÂ serve.”
“The men in my family are strong because the women in my family kill and eat the weak ones.”

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