"Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to..." - Quote by Langston Hughes
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying.
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“I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.”
“Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."”
“Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.”
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“So avoid using the word 'very' because it's lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don't use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won't do in your essays.What you do today is important, because you are sacrificing a day of your life for it.Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
“Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.”
“I was with book, as a woman is with child.”
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“Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.”
“A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.”
“As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come.”