#tho

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. ↗

— John McGahern

#completely #exist #i #i see #i think

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody. ↗

— John McGahern

#attitude #compared #did #i #killing

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#love #no love #without

True freedom is where an individual's thoughts and actions are in alignment with that which is true, correct, and of honor - no matter the personal price. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#alignment #correct #freedom #honor #individual

Truth is often the favorite tool of those who deceive. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#favorite #often #those #tool #truth

In America, educators punish those who actually think for themselves. There is only acceptance for popular opinion. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#actually #america #educators #only #opinion

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#carry #emotion #intelligence #often #our

He who is silent must be agreed with, for what shall the wings of opposition thresh upon, without the winds of conversation to shoulder them. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#conversation #must #opposition #shall #shoulder

Sometimes power is all a person has, so they will protect it even unto their own destruction, for without power they have nothing. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#even #nothing #own #person #power

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#give #remembering #take #without