- "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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