Thursday, February 19, 2009

choice quotes

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” -Kurt Vonnegut

“If you leave out important things or events that you know about, the story is strengthened. If you leave out or skip something because you do not know it, the story will be worthless. The test of any story is how very good the stuff is that you, not your editors, omit.” -Hemingway

“Wherever you go, there you are.” -Thomas Kempis

“Nostalgia is the longing for the world we all know, or seem to have known, the world we all love, and the people in it we love. Nostalgia is also a passion, a longing not only for that which is lost to us, or which has been destroyed or burned, or which we’ve outgrown; it is also a force of aspiration.” -John Cheever

“Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds are interested in the commonplace.” -Elbert Hubbard

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers." -Voltaire

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