#our

As a writer, you can't allow yourself the luxury of being discouraged and giving up when you are rejected, either by agents or publishers. You absolutely must plow forward. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#agents #allow #being #discouraged #either

If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go. ↗

— John Burroughs

#alone #fast #go #guide #hold

It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. ↗

— John Burroughs

#always #believe #deny #easier #minds

To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. ↗

— John Burroughs

#facts #imagination #imagine #one thing #thing

Put this restriction on your pleasures, be cautious that they injure no being that lives. ↗

— John Zimmerman

#cautious #injure #lives #pleasures #put

What practical conclusions may we now draw for our propaganda work among women? The task of this Party Congress must not be to issue detailed practical suggestions, but to draw up general directions for the proletarian women's movement. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#conclusions #congress #detailed #directions #draw

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#care #cat #course #does #itself

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#butler #course #disturbing

If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate executives, and owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be secure in their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will control ourselves. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#control #corporate #dominate #executives #ideas

For a woman to say she has had a dalliance with another woman is quite trendy these days. I do not like trendiness. Life isn't about dalliances - it's about individuals. You come across people in your life that you find very interesting. It's not about something flighty. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#across #another #another woman #come #days