"Why did I become a writer? A bird's feather on my windowpane in winter and all at once there arose in my heart a battle of embers never to subside again."

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Source : René Char (2004). “This Smoke that Carried Us: Selected Poems”, White Pine Press (NY)

#Heart Quotes #Winter Quotes #Bird Quotes

“We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.”
“Ideas are intelligent active things which present themselves to your consciousness for expression. You can only be receptive and express them as they will be expressed.”
“There's always ways of motivating yourself to higher levels. Write about it, dream about it. But after that, turn it into action. Don't just dream.”
“When I am angry I can write, pray, and preach well, for then my whole temperament is quickened, my understanding sharpened, and all mundane vexations and temptations depart.”
“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.10, Theodore Dreiser
“Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.”
“An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.”
“It is not that I want merely to be called a Christian, but actually to be one. Yes, if I prove to be one, then I can have the name.”

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