random quotes from cunning linguists

I am an avid collector of things, and words are no exception. These are some of my favorite quotes on writing and society, including the one at the top of my page. I haven't had much time to write this week, and I can't say it as well as they can, anyway...plus I just really like lists.


    "You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you" ~Ray Bradbury 
     
    "The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say". ~Anaïs Nin 
     
    "Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."~E.L. Doctorow 
     
    "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." ~Anton Chekhov
     
    "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." ~Dwight d Eisenhower 
     
    "I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest." ~A. Whitney brown
     
    "It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society." ~Jiddu Krishnamurt 
     
    "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable." ~Adam Smith 
     
    "Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers." ~Mignon McLaughlin
     
    "The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum." ~Adlai E. Stevenson 
     
    "The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored." ~Jean de la Bruyere
     
    "The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves." ~Arnold J. Toynbee 
     
    "Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things." ~Russell Baker 
     
    "What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?" ~Henry David Thoreau 
     
    "Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination." ~Mark Twain 
     
    "People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." ~Helen Keller

Now post some of your favorite quotes, writing-related or otherwise and I will happily add them to my collection.

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