"Nothing in nature is as simple as it sometimes seems when reduced to words."

-- Hal Borland

#Nature Quotes #Simple Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.”
“In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the further back must lie in time when it was acquired by its ancestors.”
“It seems, though, that historically we have now reached a position in which Jews cannot legitimately be understood always and only as presumptive victims.”
“You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.”
“If it is hard to accept a rebuke, even a private one, it is harder still to administer one in loving humility.”
“Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.”

Source : "Dictionary of Quotations (Classical)" edited by Thomas Benfield Harbottle, (p. 495), 1906.
“It is far more difficult... to know when to sell a stock than when to buy.”
“Do you know how writers often say the characters take over... But that is more or less what it always feels like to me, too. Even though that's just a way of describing how your brain is working, it's still what you tend to feel.”

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