Alan Garner Quotes, Writing Quotes, Simple Quotes

When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent.

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Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Art Quotes , Simple Quotes

The cure-alls of the present day are infinitely various and infinitely obliging. Applied psychology, autosuggestion, and royal roads to learning or to wealth are urged upon us by kindly, if not altogether disinterested, reformers. Simple and easy systems for the dissolution of discord and strife; simple and easy systems for the development of personality and power. Booklets of counsel on 'How to Get What We Want,' which is impossible; booklets on 'Visualization,' warranted to make us want what we get, which is ignoble.

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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

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I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.

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Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Simple Quotes , Way Quotes

Good Lord, what is man! for as simple he looks, Do but try to develop his books and his crooks, With his depths and his shallows, his good and his evil, All in all, he's a problem must puzzle the devil.

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Tags : Robert Burns Quotes , Book Quotes , Simple Quotes

So long as one does not become simple like a child, one does not get divine illumination. Forget all the worldly knowledge that thou hast acquired and become as a child, and then will thou get the divine wisdom.

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Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Children Quotes , Simple Quotes

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Writing Quotes , Simple Quotes

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.

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Think as the wise men think, but talk like the simple people do.

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Excess and deficiency are equally at fault.

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The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can’t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.

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