"I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan."

-- Tracy Letts

#Writing Quotes #Next Quotes #Hell Quotes

“In the discovery of lemmas the best aid is a mental aptitude for it. For we may see many who are quick at solutions and yet do not work by method ; thus Cratistus in our time was able to obtain the required result from first principles, and those the fewest possible, but it was his natural gift which helped him to the discovery.”
“But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.”
“Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little nutriment. The condiments or seasonings which are added are what are chiefly prized. Without these, we should almost as soon eat saw dust as mushrooms.”
“It's been a huge joy, this experience of being a mom ... I don't know how to articulate it yet, because it is so fresh.”
“To allow the fear to come on you and then pass through. If you keep cutting the fear off by intervening - let's say, taking a Xanax to try to cure it - you'll never understand what fear is really for. Fear is part of a survival mechanism. The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.”
“What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?”
“I am the kind of person that takes everything as is and then look at it from the outside looking in.”
“Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.”

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