"The real me now may not be thin but she's got the cake and, if she likes, can eat it too."

-- Arabella Weir

#Real Quotes #Cake Quotes #May Quotes

“Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer todayÂ—all the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is goingÂ—and write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.”
“It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples. (7th February 1945)”
“Re-writing is different from writing. Original writing is very difficult.”
“A Satanist practices the motto, If a man smite thee on one cheek, smash him on the other! Let no wrong go unredressed.”
“the more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...”

Source : Marvin Lowenthal, Henrietta Szold (1942). “Henrietta Szold: Life and Letters”, New York : Viking Press
“I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.”
“Women have been doing very, very strange things for centuries. I mean ancient Egyptians were already doing that, but I don't necessarily judge people who do. I don't really think it makes people look better; they just look different.”
“The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.”

Source : Vance Packard (1991). “The Hidden Persuaders”

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