Steven Galloway Quotes

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• If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.
• Do you know the difference between an optimist and a pessimist? A pessimist says ‘Oh dear, things can’t possibly get any worse.’ And an optimist…
• It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
• Most argument, and in fact most conflict, has nothing to do with the present. It's always about the past or the future. People can't agree…
• This is how....life happens. One small thing at a time. A series of inconsequential junctions, any or none of which can lead to salvation or…
• By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes…
• She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward…
• If this city is to die, it won't be because of the men on the hills, it will be because of the people in the…
• Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.…
• A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.
• Do they hate the idea of her, because she's different from them, and that in this difference there might be some sort of inferiority or…
• The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above…
• You don't choose what to believe. Belief chooses you.

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