#act

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ↗

— Janet Frame

#border #cathedrals #expedition #factories #going

We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts. ↗

— Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#desire #establishment #expansion #extensive #public

I go on the presumption that everyone's full of shit until proven otherwise, and this usually serves me in good stead. ↗

— Dennis Lehane

#character #humor #humor-inspirational #humor

The little dissatisfaction which every artist feels at the completion of a work forms the germ of a new work. ↗

— Berthold Auerbach

#completion #dissatisfaction #every #feels #forms

If you wish to find yourself, you must first admit you are lost. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#self-actualization #inspirational

Never explain, never retract, never apologize. Just get the thing done and let them howl. ↗

— Nellie L. McClung

#inspirational #inspirational

I was with a friend of mine recently who was dying and while he was lying there with his family around his bed, I just knew that was it, that was the best you can hope for in life - to have your family and the people who love you around you at the end. ↗

— Ewan McGregor

#death #family #friends #life #love

Tell all the truth but tell it slant, Success in circuit lies, Too bright for our infirm delight The truth's superb surprise; As lightning to the children eased With explanation kind, The truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#tact #truth-telling #inspirational

The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can. ↗

— Richard Cushing

#inspirational #inspirational

Apathetic people sit back and wait for things to get better before they move. Radical people make things get better by how they move. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#apathy #inspiration #mediocrity #passiveness #success