“There is nothing worse than hearing people attempt to sound intelligent by using lengthy words and misusing them.”
I completely photosynthesize with this.
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Category Archives: Quotes
… favorite sayings …
Writing about adversity…
I have two favorite quotes i’m thinking about today. Though the topics they touch on are unrelated, they seem tightly intertwined for me: writing and coping with adversity…
“Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.”
(Isaac Asimov)
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
(Ernest Hemingway)
I expect many of you can relate to both quotes, and that you know from experience how writing can be one way of working through adversity, if not during it, then in its aftermath.
Whether or not you write, if you find yourself facing adveristy of whatever sort, i wish you strength and peace.
The best people…
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”
(Ernest Hemingway)
(photo by A.Berchem, Sep 2015)
When you’re writing…
A motivating quote for my fellow writers…
“When you’re writing, you’re conjuring. It’s a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of whatever it is that you’re inviting into the room.”
(Tom Waits)
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Hold on…
Smart phones…
“These days you can do so many things with your smart phone – but not everything… Are you getting too little sleep? There’s a nap for that.”
(KH)
Forgiveness continued…
I came across this meme this week which ties in quite well with my earlier post about forgiveness in Charleston…
Uncertainty…
“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
(Voltaire)
Indifference…
“You’re starting a support group for dismissive hipster indifference? Wow, good luck with that.”
(John Fugelsang)
Here to do good…
“We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don’t know.”
(W.H. Auden)
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