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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James

“I always want to know the things one shouldn't do."
"So as to do them?" asked her aunt.
"So as to choose," said Isabel”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

“Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?”
― Henry James, The Ambassadors

“المرأة بعاطفتها، إنسان يفوق الإنسان”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“اللجوء إلى الإيمان، بحد ذاته، يحتاج إلى.. إيمان..”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“إذا ما صادفت رجلًا بأكثر من شخصية، فاعلم أنه يبحث عن نفسه في إحداها، لأنه بلا شخصية.”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“ الحزن ماده عديمة اللون , غير مرئيه , يفرزها شخص ما , تنتقل منه إلي كل مكان حوله , يُري تأثيرها علي كل شيء تلامسه , ولا تُري ! ”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“ليست الأنثى بشكلها وتصرفاتها، محفزاً لغريزة الرجل، بقدر الصورة التي يراها عليها داخل رأسه”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“تتكشف لنا حقيقة أحلامنا كلما أقتربنا منها عاماً بعد عام.

نرهن حياتنا في سبيل تحقيقها ، تمضي السنون. نكبر وتبقى الأحلام في سنها صغيرة.. ندركها.. نحققها.. و إذا بنا نكبرها بأعوام.


أحلام صغيرة لا تستحق عناء إنتظارنا طيلة تلك السنوات.”
― سعود السنعوسي, ساق البامبو

“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga. ”
― William Zinsser

“Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.”
― William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“Writing is an act of ego, and you might as well admit it.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction

“Don’t try to visualize the great mass audience. There is no such audience—every reader is a different person.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide To Writing Nonfiction

“Writing is hard work. A clear sentence is no accident. Very few sentences come out right the first time, or even the third time. Remember this in moments of despair. If you find that writing is hard, it’s because it is hard.”
― William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with being published. Writing is a powerful search mechanism, and one of its satisfactions is to come to terms with your life narrative. Another is to work through some of life’s hardest knocks—loss, grief, illness, addiction, disappointment, failure—and to find understanding and solace.”
― William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“the secret of good writing is to strip every sentence to its cleanest components.”
― William Knowlton Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“Look for the clutter in your writing and prune it ruthlessly. Be grateful for everything you can throw away. Reexamine each sentence you put on paper. Is every word doing new work? Can any thought be expressed with more economy?”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“Don’t say you were a bit confused and sort of tired and a little depressed and somewhat annoyed. Be confused. Be tired. Be depressed. Be annoyed. Don’t hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“Beware, then, of the long word that's no better than the short word: "assistance" (help), "numerous" (many), "facilitate" (ease), "Individual" (man or woman), "remainder" (rest), "initial" (first), "implement" (do), "sufficient" (enough), "attempt" (try), "referred to as" (called), and hundreds more. Beware of all the slippery new fad words: paradigm and parameter, prioritize and potentialize. They are all weeds that will smother what you write. Don't dialogue with someone you can talk to. Don't interface with anybody.”
― William Zinsser, On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

“Among the essential features of this situation is that no one knows his place in society, his class position or social status, nor does any one know his fortune in the distribution of natural assets and abilities, his intelligence, strength, and the like. I shall even assume that the parties do not know their conceptions of the good or their special psychological propensities. The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.”
― John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

“The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position. These are simply natural facts. What is just and unjust is the way that institutions deal with these facts.”
― John Rawls, A Theory of Justice

“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
― Charles Mackay