What lasts in the reader's mind is not the phrase but the effect the phrase created: laughter, tears, pain, joy. If the phrase is not affecting the reader, what's it doing there? Make it do its job or cut it without mercy or remorse.
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying. Is this not the best idea? At 77 I’m taking violin lessons, Spanish lessons, golf lessons, karate lessons, water ski tricks lessons! Every day is filled with excitement!!
Some quotes from one of my favorite authors. Some of these seem especially important today.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."
The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying. Is this not the best idea? At 77 I’m taking violin lessons, Spanish lessons, golf lessons, karate lessons, water ski tricks lessons! Every day is filled with excitement!!
Some quotes from one of my favorite authors. Some of these seem especially important today.