"Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words, and a book of art. Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony." - Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations

"I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine." - Leo Tolstoy

I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. - John Updike

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it." - J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations." - Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Great Quotes and Opening Lines





“Autobiographies of great nations are written in three manuscripts – a book of deeds, a book of words and a book of art.  Of the three, I would choose the latter as truest testimony.”

      Sir Kenneth Smith, Great Civilisations




The sun that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray...


      John Greenleaf Whittier, Snowbound




And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

      TS Eliot, Little Gidding




Hold to the Now,
The Here, to
Which all Future plunges
To the Past.

      James Joyce, Ulysses





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