"Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it."

-- Phyllis Bottome

#Truth Quotes #Disadvantages Quotes

“I prefer a dirty victory to a noble defeat.”
“You will find the poet who wrings the heart of the world, or the foremost captain of his time, driving a bargain or paring a potato, just as you would do.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.49, Vanderbilt University Press
“I'm pretty excited for people to listen to the story of each song. It's definitely like a giant book with different stories in it. They are all very child-like but also a balance between light and dark.”
“The reader must come armed , in a serious state of intellectual readiness. This is not easy because he comes to the text alone. In reading, one's responses are isolated, one'sintellect thrown back on its own resourses. To be confronted by the cold abstractions of printed sentences is to look upon language bare, without the assistance of either beauty or community. Thus, reading is by its nature a serious business. It is also, of course, an essentially rational activity.”
“Creative nonfiction writers do not make things up; they make ideas and information that already exist more interesting and often more accessible.”
“As much as it's awful to learn about all the greedy and selfish decisions that some people make, I know there are many more people who have good intentions.”

Source : "Jayni Chase: Founder, Center for Environmental Education Interview: Chip Comins". Interview with Chip Comins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Our relation to the natural world takes place in a place.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.42, Counterpoint Press
“There's nothing to fear but fear itself. It's an illusion of fear. Fear is an illusion. If you gonna die, you gonna die anyway; it's not something to fear, fear is not gonna help.”

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