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Oct. 27th, 2010 09:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatIn hunting quotes for church listserve which I'm editing - found this one by Coretta Scott King (the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.). Not fitting for the listserve, but worth remembering.
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." (Quite true. Worst emotions? Anger, Envy, Fear, and Jealousy - not necessarily in that order.)
And these quotes by Isabelle Allende, a South American Writer. I have her book "Zorro" which I keep on meaning to read, but first must finish Storm of Swords and Side Jobs by Butcher, which I'm now reading at the same time. Sort of bogged down in Storm, it's good, just...very, very, very long.
Write what should not be forgotten.
• While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
• Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.
• For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
* Write what should not be forgotten.
[Sigh. I fear sometimes that I write far too often that which not only should be forgotten but must be forgotten, to such an extent I either delete it or throw up my hands in surrender, and wish I'd never put down the words. Being precise and careful in writing and speech remains oddly a constant struggle, I say oddly, because I am cautious with just about everything else.]
"Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated." (Quite true. Worst emotions? Anger, Envy, Fear, and Jealousy - not necessarily in that order.)
And these quotes by Isabelle Allende, a South American Writer. I have her book "Zorro" which I keep on meaning to read, but first must finish Storm of Swords and Side Jobs by Butcher, which I'm now reading at the same time. Sort of bogged down in Storm, it's good, just...very, very, very long.
Write what should not be forgotten.
• While you are experimenting, do not remain content with the surface of things. Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
• Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken.
• For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
* Write what should not be forgotten.
[Sigh. I fear sometimes that I write far too often that which not only should be forgotten but must be forgotten, to such an extent I either delete it or throw up my hands in surrender, and wish I'd never put down the words. Being precise and careful in writing and speech remains oddly a constant struggle, I say oddly, because I am cautious with just about everything else.]