"I do that which I do in every place. Here also, at the gateway of that garden into which time has not entered, I fight with time my ever-losing battle, because to do that diverts me."

-- James Branch Cabell

#Fighting Quotes #Garden Quotes #Battle Quotes

“Life would be very pleasant if it were not for its enjoyments.”

Source : 'Mr Facey Romford's Hounds' (1865) ch. 32.
“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”
“Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good.”
“Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.”
“I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!”
“I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”

Source : Letter to General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, 3 Aug. 1650 See Hand 10
“Every family is a 'normal' family - no matter whether it has one parent, two or no children at all. A family can be made up of any combination of people, heterosexual or homosexual, who share their lives in an intimate (not necessarily sexual) way. ... Wherever there is lasting love, there is a family.”
“I have not personally suffered from the deprivations, the bitterness and sorrow which bring so many men and women to a realisation of social injustice.”

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