"If there is aught of good in the style, it is the result of ceaseless toil in rewriting. Everything comes out wrong with me at first; but when once objectified I can torture and poke and scrape and pat it till it offends me no more."

-- William James

#Style Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Rewriting Quotes

“Science brings to the light of day everything man had believed sacred. Technique takes possession of it and enslaves it.”
“They that are against superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I wear all colors but black, then I am superstitious in not wearing black.”
“Not to be arrogant, but I have a lot of hits, so my phone stay ringing, but it's consistent.”
“The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.”
“I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the lizard. Gazing ath the water at a pike, I become the pike.”
“Marriage has a unique place because it speaks of an absolute faithfulness, a covenant between radically different persons, male and female; and so it echoes the absolute covenant of God with his chosen, a covenant between radically different partners.”
“Trust arrives on foot but leaves in a Ferrari The Ferrari screeched out of the parking lot in 2008.”
“The basis and firm groundwork of the material, and its primary contribution, lies in the concept that consciousness itself indeed creates matter, that consciousness is not imprisoned by matter but forms it, and that consciousness is not limited or bound by time or space; time and space in your terms being necessary distortions, or adopted conditions, forming a strata for physical existence.”

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