Category: writer
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My father was the editor of an agricultural magazine called ‘The Southern Planter.’ He didn’t think of himself as a writer. He was a scientist, an agronomist, but I thought of him as a writer because I’d seen him working at his desk. I just assumed that I was going to do that, that I was going to be a writer.
Tom Wolfe
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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
Napoleon Hill
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
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The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
William Shakespeare
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We forge the chains we wear in life.
Charles Dickens
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Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
Anthony J. D’Angelo
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The more you explain it, the more I don’t understand it.
Mark Twain
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If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
Alan Watts