"Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels."

-- May Sarton

#Writing Quotes #Fifteen Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.”
“Spin-offs were never really my thing.”
“The Episcopals don't demand much in the way of actual religious belief. They have girl priests, gay priests, gay bishops, gay marriages it's much like The New York Times editorial board. They acknowledge the Ten Commandments or " Moses ' talking points" but hasten to add that they're not exactly "carved in stone.”
“Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.”
“All of us started normal. All of us started out as functioning human beings with the potential to do almost anything we wanted, but somewhere along the paths of our lives, we got lost.”
“Nothing can be more demoralizing than a clinging and abject dependence upon another human being. This often amounts to the demand for a degree of protection and love that no one could possibly satisfy. So our hoped for protectors finally flee, and once more we are left alone - either to grow up or to disintegrate.”
“Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.”

Source : "The Comparable Max" by Adam Gopnik, www.newyorker.com. August 3, 2015.
“Itâ€™s all okay, itâ€™s all beautiful; but ah fear that this internal sea is gaunnae subside soon, leaving this poisonous ***** washed up, stranded up in ma body.”

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