There is a great tendency today to want everybody to write just the way everybody else does, to see and to show the same things in the same way to the same middling audience. But the writer, in order best to use the talents he...
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Flannery OConnor
More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts.
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Robert Frost
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend.
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R.J. Green
He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.
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Adam Young
More Quotes By Eric Hoffer
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.
