#cease

Fiction is experimentation; when it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction. ↗

— John Cheever

#experimentation #fiction

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. ↗

— Horace

#cease #day #forth #future #gift

Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#ceases #commonplaces #everything #familiar #miracles

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few. ↗

— John Masefield

#become #being #came #ceased #community

Science Fiction will never run out of things to wonder about until the human race ceases to use its brain. ↗

— Julian May

#brain #ceases #fiction #human #human race

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody? ↗

— Charles Olson

#cease #everybody #government #nuisance #will

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign. ↗

— James K. Polk

#become #cease #close #heartily #i

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#any #cease #ceases #die #does

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

True, permanent peace can never be restored, until slavery, the occasion of the war, has ceased. ↗

— Gerrit Smith

#never #occasion #peace #permanent #permanent peace