"If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words."

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Sherwood Anderson

#Writing Quotes

“Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.”
“Swaraj is my birthright, and I shall have it!”

Source : Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1974). “Samagra Lokmanya Tilak”
“My conscience is my crown,Contented thoughts my rest;My heart is happy in itself,My bliss is in my breast.Enough I reckon wealth;A mean the surest lot,That lies too high for base contempt,Too low for envy's shot.”

Source : Robert Southwell (1856). “The poetical works of the rev. Robert Southwell, now first completely ed. by W. B. Turnbull”, p.57
“How can I call security a woman's primary fantasy if I am saying it is also her primary need? Because while her primary need is the security of a home and a family circle, her primary fantasy is that someone else will earn enough to pay for them. Hence the focus of 2 billion women on the latest royal wedding.”
“... real pity should stretch out to people whom we do not like -- to those whom we have injured or who despitefully use us.”
“It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.”
“Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.”
“If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.”

Source : Stuart Briscoe (2010). “What Works When Life Doesn't”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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